Pity Quotes - Page 28

• It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

  H. G. Wells

  Voice, Suffering, Nerves

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.46, H. G. Wells

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• Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

  Terry Goodkind

  Guilty, Innocent, Treason

  "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.

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• Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Giving, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ideas, Littles, Good Work

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• Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

  Richard Kadrey

  Song, Hate, Self

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Light, Understanding

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thank You, Doe, Answers

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.81, Penguin

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• ...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

  Nick Vujicic

  Self, Purpose, Trade

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• The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.

  Alice Sebold

  Falling In Love, Taken, Dark

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• I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Party, Wish

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• They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

  Marianne Moore

  Fighting, Self, Sick

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.146, Penguin

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• You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Things In Life, Soul

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• I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

  Veronica Roth

  Looks, Use, Als

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Lonely, Children, Heart

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

  Ayn Rand

  Love You, Sacrifice, Air

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.358, Penguin

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• Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hate, Self, Misunderstood

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• These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Dark

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1097, First Avenue Editions

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• Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, Two, Forgiving

  Jonathan Carroll (2006). “Glass Soup”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Mercy, Poor

  William Blake (2003). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.21, Octavo

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• In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

  Miranda July

  Parent, World, Enough

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Good Authors, Converses

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Humble, Good Luck

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “A Damsel in Distress: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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