Pity Quotes - Page 33

• We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

  Gena Showalter

  Party, Violin

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.126, Harlequin

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• One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Stars, Children, Father

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.85, Chosen Books

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• I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

  Henri Barbusse

  Heart, Remember, My Heart

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.85, 1st World Publishing

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• The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, World, Limits

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• So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Past, Color

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.88

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• I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Understanding, Enemy

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• The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Men, Wheels

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.370, Macmillan

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• When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity;
  when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes
  compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know
  all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,
  to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are
  neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Pain, Compassion

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• The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Rich, Poor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
  Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Heart, Broken

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• I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

  Mitch Albom

  Depression, Morning, Self

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

  Max Lucado

  Life, God, Christian

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Humorous, Love You

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• I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Cat, Laughing

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• As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.

  William Alexander Percy

  Teacher, Pride, Justice

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• Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
  Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
  Where pity is, for pity makes the world
  Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  Edwin Arnold

  Life, Strong, Noble

  Sir Edwin Arnold, SBP Editors (2017). “The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation”, p.108, Samaira Book Publishers

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• If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Love You, Love Is

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Book II, ch. 3, 1879 - 1880.

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• Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Compassion, Self

  Julian of Norwich (2012). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• When late I attempted your pity to move,
  Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
  Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
  But-why did you kick me downstairs?

  John Philip Kemble

  Life, Prayer, Moving

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• I do not love thee less for what is done,
  And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
  Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
  My love will have a sense of pity in it,
  Making it less a worship than before.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Weakness, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, -intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Christian, Selfish, Thinking

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• There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

  Mark Twain

  Strong, Fighting, Land

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.74, Univ of California Press

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• Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

  Anatole France

  Respect, Heart, Two

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• Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

  Jim Rohn

  Success, Men, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 13, 2015

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• Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

  Virgil

  Sympathy, Suffering, Affliction

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