Pity Quotes - Page 18

• I pity those who have no taste for reading.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Book, Reading, Taste

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Independent, Opportunity

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Pain, Suffering, Helping

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• People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.

  Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

  Joseph Hertz

  Punishment, Divine

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs". Book by Joseph Hertz, Genesis III, 21 (p. 12), 1937.

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• I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Mutants, Cripples

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

  I. L. Peretz

  Stars, Sky, Heaven

  "Drei Matones" (1904-1915). As quoted in "Peretz" by S. Liptzin, p. 187, 1947.

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• Pity enlarges the heart.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart

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• Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

  Saadi

  Wicked, Wickedness

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• Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

  Ruth Graham

  Marriage, Couple, Too Much

  Ruth Bell Graham (2001). “Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love”, Baker Pub Group

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• kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mistake, Kissing, Kissing Someone

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• This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Heart, Love Is

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

  Phoebe Cary

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Giving

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.153

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• You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Confused, Philosophical

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

  Mario Bunge

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

  Rose McGowan

  Stupid, Idiot, Deals

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

  Tito Colliander

  Reality, Self, Evil

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.18, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Healing

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• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Humanity, Knows

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Book

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

  Paul Auster

  Father, Important, Looks

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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