Pity Quotes

Never take yourself too seriously.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

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

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

God pity the poor novelist.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

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.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

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?

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

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.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

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.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

Holidays - Have no pity.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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.