Pity Quotes - Page 39

• Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

  Red Skelton

  Prayer, School, Would Be

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• In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Sorry, Hate

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.109, Basic Books

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• Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

  Michael Biehn

  Terminator 2, Feels, Remorse

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• I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

  Ehud Olmert

  Morning, Israel, People

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• When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Sky, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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• Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

  Joe Abercrombie

  Pain, Steel, Break

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• The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.

  Julia Lathrop

  Yesterday, Justice, Today

  Julia Lathrop (1974). “The United States Children's Bureau, 1912-1972”, Ayer Co Pub

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• It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, Home, Mould

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame love answers love's appeal. This is earth's darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore; then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore. Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour, thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.

  Peter Abelard

  Life, Pain, Sacrifice

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• I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Divorce, Plies

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Suffering, Rabbits

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Mother, Father, Rights

  Congressional Record, 91st Cong., 2d Sess, 116, pt. 21: (28028-28029), August 10, 1970.

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• The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Europe, Hatred, Brilliant

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 245, 1856.

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• If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Want, Messages

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.8, Seven Stories Press

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• Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jail, Justice, Silence

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• What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Christianity, Weak

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• Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

  Amy Lowell

  Loneliness, Moon, Being Lonely

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• So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

  John Berryman

  Vanity, Self, Talking

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Crush, Names, Flying

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• You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

  Mike Tyson

  Jobs, Motivation, Fear

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• What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Abuse, Philosopher, Made

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• Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

  Gorgias

  Pain, Powerful, Joy

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• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Humility, Men

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

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