Pity Quotes - Page 17

• What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Law, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.360, Penguin

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• Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

  Mason Cooley

  Sympathy, Self, Self Pity

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• Self-pity makes people callous.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, People, Callous

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• Pity drowns in numbers.

  Mason Cooley

  Numbers

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• I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Vocabulary, Culture, Abstract

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

  Os Guinness

  Self, Opposites, Have Faith

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Flames, Funeral

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• Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Party, Men, Looks

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• Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Reality, Men

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• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Inspire, Mixtures

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Real, Heart

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• Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Loss, Men

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

  Josh Billings

  Unfortunate

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• I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

  Josh Billings

  Sorrow, Cures, Knows

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• The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Practice, People, Good Man

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• I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

  Thomas Browne

  Knowledge, Men, Envy

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.121

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
  Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Being In Love, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6697, Delphi Classics

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• Intellectual disgrace
  Stares from every human face,
  And the seas of pity lie
  Locked and frozen in each eye.

  W. H. Auden

  Lying, Sadness, Eye

  "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" l. 46 (1940)

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• One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Self, Creative, Emotion

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 28), 1980.

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

  Pietro Metastasio

  Grief, Men, Envy

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• There is no creature loves me;
  And if I die, no soul will pity me.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Despair

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

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• Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Heart, Glasses

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• I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Hate

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.67, e-artnow

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