Pity Quotes - Page 15

• nothing is so binding as pity.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Binding

  Alice Tisdale Hobart (1946). “The Peacock Sheds His Tail”

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• I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

  Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

  Rainy Day, Gentleman, Ennui

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• one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

  Craig L. Rice

  Dread, Stills, Died

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• the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

  Susanna Rowson

  Forgiveness, Heart, Errors

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.73, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

  Mary Borden

  Death, Dies, Our Lives

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• ... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.

  Margaret Campbell Barnes

  Real, People, Use

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• Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead.

  Harry Enfield

  Hate, Men, Males

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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Morning

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

  Sophocles

  Fate, Evil, Enemy

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• Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Majority, Mediocrity, Sake

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• O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
  the journey, still they moan and beat
  against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Wall, Journey

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• He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
  With planets in His care,
  Had pity on the least of things
  Asleep upon a chair.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Purple, Care

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• My own heart let me more have pity on; let
  Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
  Charitable; not live this tormented mind
  With this tormented mind tormenting
  yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Party, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 487-600] The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war. The trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder [no. 1-30”, p.177

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• Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
  And thy maker is not by;
  Think not thou canst weep a tear
  And thy maker is not near.

  William Blake

  God, Thinking, Tears

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.60, Routledge

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• I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Stupid, Eye

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• Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.

  Herman Melville

  Country, War, Expectations

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.272

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• I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Care

  Elizabeth Bowen (1942). “Seven winters”

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• Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Separation, Lord

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• One grows out of pity when it's useless.

  Albert Camus

  Useless, Grows

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silly, Insanity, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  People, Evil, Reform

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.21, Lulu.com

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