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In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
Julius Caesar
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
William Cowper
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Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.
J. K. Rowling
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas Hardy
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I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
Henri Barbusse
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard
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A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
Christian McEwen
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Dorothy Parker
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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
Mary Oliver
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Wilfred Owen
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Virginia Woolf
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What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.
Marc Chagall
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Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.
Coolio
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Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
Charles Bukowski
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
Emile Zola
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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.
Steven Morrissey
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Victor Hugo
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I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.
Gerard Way
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
William Blake
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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Jean Rostand
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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
Jerry Lewis
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Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
Joseph Henry
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon
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Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.
Ray Davies
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In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy,
but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
William Blake
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It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
Halldór Laxness
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Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
Ann Landers
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Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.
Ari Marmell
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To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.
Philip Neri
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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise
William Shakespeare
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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
Eugene H. Peterson
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A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Richard Steele
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Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
John Calvin