Pity Quotes - Page 25

• For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

  William Blake

  Love, Jealousy, Peace

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mistake, Kissing, Done

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• Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sorry, Memories, Thinking

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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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• We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crush, Sex, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hurt, Men, Hair

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

  Robin Hobb

  Self, Events In Life, Challenges

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny”, p.1940, Del Rey

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• Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nice, Twilight, Eye

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• If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

  Janet Evanovich

  Office, Position, Ifs

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• Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Self, Dwelling, Meals

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Blow, Creative

  "Nonconformity: Writing on Writing". Book by Nelson Algren, 1996.

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• I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray contaner or two. Everything had been sealed up, but things were beginning to leak out. I had come to both pity and respect Len in the years since my mother left. He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comphrehend. In that, I could see, he was like me.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Thinking, Years

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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, Pity Love, Feelings

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• Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Heart, Fate

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• Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

  Henry James

  Thinking, Evil, Horror

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.343, University of Chicago Press

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• If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, God

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.123, Race Point Publishing

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• It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

  Debbie Macomber

  Miracle, Self Pity, Pot

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• Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Long, Speak, Miserable

  Edgar Allan Poe (2010). “Mystery Tales”, p.33, Giunti Editore

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• They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

  Stephen King

  Children, Clothes, Giving

  Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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• It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

  Tao Lin

  Half, Entertainment, Comedy

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• What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

  Marc Chagall

  Genius, Paint

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• She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment in listening to the larks singing far and near; and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom, as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure. She was a happy creautre, and an angel in those those days. It is a pity she could not stay content.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Eye, Angel

  "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Bronte, 1847.

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• Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Weakness, Wickedness, Ifs

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.21, Booklassic

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• It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

  Louis Zukofsky

  Speaks Out, People, Risk

  Louis Zukofsky (1961). “It was”

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