Pity
Piety.
A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
To be compassionate; to show pity.
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Pity Quotations
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.
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain
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
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
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
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
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Woodrow Wilson
Pity Translations
pity in Danish is ynke, medlidenhed
pity in Dutch is schade, iets betreurenswaardigs
pity in French is compatir, tant pis, compassion, plaindre
pity in German is bemitleiden, Mitleid, Mitleit
pity in Italian is peccato, compassione, compianto
pity in Latin is misericordia
pity in Portuguese is piedade
pity in Spanish is condolencia, lastimar, lamentar, piedad
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