Pity Quotes

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sympathy, True, Giving

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Human, Often, Miss

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Often, Miss, Party

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Francis of Assisi

God, Men, Compassion

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Hard

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Love, Knowledge

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Nelson Mandela

Hope, Future, Human

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire

Illegal, Exquisite

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake

Love, God, Mercy

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Heart, Beyond

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune, Contempt, Complaint

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
David Herbert Lawrence

Anger, Angry, Justice

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Self, Through, Eyes

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens

Change, Society, Two

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Simple, Human

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham

Thought, Lovely

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Others, Company

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

Nature, Human, Fire

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Stanley Kubrick

Love, Mistake, Confuse

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov

Sea, Meaning, Nor

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust

Friendship, Anger, Opinion

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Stendhal

Time, Respect, Same

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France

Life, Good, Courage

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide

Love, Beauty, Made

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison

Country, Die, Once

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley

Fear, Cruelty, Softened

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
Jennifer Aniston

Days, Party, Thrown

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Whether, Knew, Coming

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick

Idiot, Village, Idealist

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille

Enemy, Sweet, Fate

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