Pity Love Quotes

• 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, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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• Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Silly, Inspire

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". m.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping Others, Love Is, Hands

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Spirit, Pity

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• I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Gratitude, Husband

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.4, A&C Black

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• A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Life, Dream

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Pity of Love"

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• Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

  Earl Hamner, Jr.

  Sacrifice, Journey, Compassion

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• She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Love You, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

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• The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

  Lin Yutang

  Character, Feelings, Purpose

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• ... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Thank God, Youth

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.270

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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