Pity Quotes - Page 5

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Sorry, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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• There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Girl, Needs, Waste

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Years, Age, Growing

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

  Patty Duke

  Self, People, Unattractive

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam

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• Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

  Anatole France

  Depression, Courage, Giving

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Wrath, Tears, Hot

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Learning, Heart, Mind

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.19, Library of America

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• Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Men, Two

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• Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Ice Cream, Ideas

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• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  Karen Armstrong

  Sorry, Mean, Compassion

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• It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Mixing, Disappear

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

  Gene Pitney

  Reality, Towns, Can Do

  Song: Town Without Pity

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• Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

  Coolio

  Inspirational, Ambition, Turns

  Song: I C U When U Get There

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Book, Taken, Science

  Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)

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• Have pity on a dinosaur.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Dinosaurs, Politics

  Song: Dinosaur

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• The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Fall, Doors, House

  Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream

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• I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Fall, Loss

  Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien,

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• It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Frustrated, Would Be, Chance

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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• Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Needs, Cottages, Care

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.504, e-artnow

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• It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

  Marat Safin

  Years, Tennis, Radical Change

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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