Pity Quotes - Page 20

• The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

  James Stewart

  Christian, Attitude, Opportunity

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• I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Sea, Lovers

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.155

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• Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Odd Things, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

  Rumi

  Night, Sea, Rivers

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• It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

  Ray Davies

  Care, Easy, Difficult

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.22, The Overlook Press

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• What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

  Frederick Douglass

  Giving, Justice, Legs

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Liberty, Yoke

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• I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Men, Like Love, Feelings

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1960). “Best Games of Chess”, Dover Publications

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• I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

  Naomi Campbell

  Fall, Self, Careers

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Self, Tire

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• He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

  Karen Armstrong

  Literary Theory, People, Tragedy

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• In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Hard Times, America

  Interview with Anisse Gross, therumpus.net. August 17, 2012.

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• Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Hatred, Temptation

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• Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

  B. B. King

  Unique

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• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  Helen Keller

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Three Days to See". Book by Helen Keller, 1933.

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• Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

  Shinjo Ito

  Blind, Misfortunes

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.56

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• Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Classic, Kind, Retarded

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Keys

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• If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mean, Feelings, Realizing

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Deeds, Anarchy

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.597, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.

  Greg Chappell

  Pain, Live Life, Athlete

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• I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

  Billy Sunday

  Laughing, Devil

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Showing you pity doesn't do you any favors.

  Jillian Michaels

  Favors

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