Pity Quotes - Page 36

• Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, House, Curiosity

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Age, Grows

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Men, Merit

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

  J. G. Holland

  God, Believe, Science

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• I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

  Booker T. Washington

  Heart, Race, Prejudice

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• I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.

  Patrick Henry

  Believe, Opportunity, Evil

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, Eye, Compassion

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• As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Pain, Healing, Compassion

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.134, VM eBooks

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• Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Years, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.544, George Eliot

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• These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Compassion, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Eye, Dark, Compassion

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.76, ebookspub

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• If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Pain, Thinking, Age

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• Was it for crimes that I had done
  He groaned upon the tree?
  Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
  And love beyond degree!

  Isaac Watts

  Easter, Love Is, Tree

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.308

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• In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Hands, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Thankfulness, And Love

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

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Grieving

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• Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Age, Youth, Aging

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.158, Library of America

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• Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Beauty, Death, Appreciation

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• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Reform, Needs, Born

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

  Michelle Black

  Differences, Lust, Masquerade

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• Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

  Augustus Hare

  Beef, Eating, Mustard

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• Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Knives, May, Sometimes

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• Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

  Bolesław Prus

  Emotion

  "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.

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• Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

  Clarence Darrow

  Soul

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• Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

  Tulsidas

  Wind, Tree, Words You Speak

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