Pity Quotes

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
-Mark Twain

"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."
-John W. Gardner

"Christianity is called the religion of pity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?"
-Matt Groening

"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast."
-William Shakespeare

"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?"
-William Shakespeare

"Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."
-William Shakespeare

"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."
-William Shakespeare

"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
-Horace Mann

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."
-Helen Keller

"It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity."
-Lyman Abbott

"The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man."
-Bob Goddard

"Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity."
-Stephen Vincent Benet

"Though it is a pity that these type of premises get targeted. Who are they damaging? It's the kids who miss out."
-Rob Janes

"First of all, I have to thank Milan, but I know that the result has been the fruit of my efforts and my hard work. It has been a fantastic season, and I'm happy. It's a pity about the Champions League final."
-Hernan Crespo

"It doesn't help to wallow in self-pity. We're trying."
-Cindy Salerno

"There's no point beating up on Fraser Institute. This is people's perception about Colorado. It's a pity because we certainly have the mineral deposits here."
-Stan Dempsey

"What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
-Margot Asquith

"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."
-Millicent Fenwick

"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little."
-Rachel Carson

"It's a pity for us to have missed the chance of winning the second game, but for the player herself, she had done enough of her job."
-Lu Yuansheng

"I know I'm not that great a singer, so he had pity on me and let me in his group. I helped out with managing the group, too."
-Jon Drummond

"And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness."
-William Forrest Winter

"But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die."
-Beilby Porteus

"Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended a."
-John Herschel

"Not once, during this whole thing, did he ever seek pity. That just isn't who Bailey is."
-Shannon Bailey

"Last night was disappointing. But you can wallow in your self pity or you can go out there and do it again -- and I did."
-Giaan Rooney

"The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity."
-Vicki Baum