Pity Quotes - Page 29

• Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.

  Lisa McMann

  Party, Moving, Together

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Sweet, Lying

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.186

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• Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

  Chris Cleave

  Cry, Understood, Stills

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Loyalty, Understanding

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• I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

  Charles Dickens

  Stars, Men, Would Be

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. "Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually. "Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Voice, Mentor

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• Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, People, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Self, Agony

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media

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• It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mrs Dalloway, Thousand, Feels

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.

  Deb Caletti

  Anchors, Iron, Needs

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• I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Poor, Signs Of Love, Feels

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.288, First Avenue Editions

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• I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sorry, Self, Daddy

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

  Robin Wasserman

  Laughter, Fake, Tails

  Robin Wasserman (2009). “Skinned”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sea, Agony, Soul

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 4

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• All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Heart, Woe

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• I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.

  Gerard Way

  Scratches, Dies

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• Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

  Christopher Pike

  Wretchedness, Knows

  Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Self, Self Pity, I Can

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Gun, with Occasional Music”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.

  Nalini Singh

  Alive, Royal

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.287, Penguin

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• You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.

  Claudia Gray

  Believe, Eye, Doors

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• Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

  Dante Alighieri

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• The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Grief, Rose, Tree

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.45, Everyman's Library

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• This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Believe, Suffering, Violence

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.108, New Directions Publishing

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• Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Policy, Conscience

  1605 First Stranger.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.2, l.87-8.

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