Pity Quotes

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

~ Al Álvarez

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .

~ Zadie Smith

Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die!For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak!

~ Rick Remender

When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.

~ Adam Makos

I only care about the helped less, and the helpless, not the helpfest or the hellfest.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

~ Dan Groat

When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale,Tears our best hopes away, the wounded HeartExhausted, leans on all that can impartThe charm of Sympathy; her mutual wailHow soothing! never can her warm tears failTo balm our bleeding grief's severest smart;Nor wholly vain feign'd Pity's solemn art,Tho' we should penetrate her sable veil.Concern, e'en known to be assum'd, our painsRespecting, kinder welcome far acquiresThan cold Neglect, or Mirth that Grief profanes.Thus each faint Glow-worm of the Night conspires,Gleaming along the moss'd and darken'd lanes,To cheer the Gloom with her unreal fires.

~ Anna Seward

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

~ Barry Unsworth

But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We have disease and cruelty, and not a breath of air or freedom. You cannot say our lives are easy, any more than I can say yours is. They are lives, and so they are HORRID!

~ Stefan Bachmann

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.

~ J.a. Redmerski

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

~ Alice Walker

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

~ Jodi Picoult

- in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to save him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

~ Clara Winter

Don’t ever feel sorry for yourself. Don’t ever seek pity from other people. Don’t ever play the victim, even if you are one.Why? It’s a mentality. If you wait for someone else to solve your problems, you’re usually in for a long wait. Even if you do get help, you probably won’t like the help you get.

~ John Hawkins

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.

~ Mitch Albom

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

~ William Shakespeare

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

~ Ayn Rand

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

~ Dean Koontz

Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them.

~ Ron Baratono

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

~ Colum Mccann

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

~ Graham Greene

Do not envy the rich, pity them. Matthew 19:24.

~ Felix Wantang

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

~ William Blake

Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

~ Robert Jordan

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.

~ Marcel Proust

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

~ Eoin Colfer

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

~ André Maurois

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

~ Helen Keller

What poison is to food self-pity is to life.

~ Oliver C. Wilson

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Grumbling is the death of love.

~ Marlene Dietrich

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

~ Stephen King

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

~ Winifred Rhoades

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

~ Anonymous