Quotes About Pity

For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.

Noah is grinning at me, teasing, mocking just a little. He doesn't know that he should hate me. Fear me. Pity me. I should like him for that, but in the end I can't respect anyone who could be foolish enough to be sucked into all of my lies.

Ahora que vuelvo a pensar en ello, me doy cuenta de que el sentido que se embota primero, a medida que la vida se nos va viniendo encima, es el de la piedad. La tan llevada y traída solidaridad humana que jamás ha significado para mí nada concreto. Se la menciona en circunstancias de pasajero pánico. Entonces pensamos más bien en el apoyo de los demás y no en el que nosotros podríamos ofrecerles.

Les gens qui ne sont pas indifférents à l'extrême beauté : ils la déteste très consciemment. Le très laid suscite parfois un peu de compassion ; le très beau irrite sans pitié. La clé du succès réside dans la vague joliesse qui ne dérange personne.

People who call me a comic actor are uneducated. It is their weakness. I feel pity for them.

Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

If to be absent were to beAway from thee;Or that when I am gone,You and I were alone;Then, my Lucasta, might I cravePity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave.

Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.

It cannot but cheer the heart of the spouse, to consider, in all her infirmities and miseries she is subject to, that she hath a husband of a kind disposition, that knows how to give the honour of mild usage to the weaker vessel, that will be so far from rejecting her, because she is weak, that he will pity her the more. And as he is kind at all times, so especially when it is most seasonable; he will speak to her heart, 'especially in the wilderness,' Hos. ii. 24.

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats" - Christian

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first?

I pity the poverty of your wealth.

Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.

Whatever passably decent treatment Margaret had had from him was the result of a temporary victory of fear over irritation and/or pity over boredom.

Men om hun nu pludselig sang der oppe i stuen igjen, sang ned til disse blomsterne her? Javel - når hun slog sin lidenskap ut som en vifte og var god og gal. Stakkars hende! Men stakkars allesammen!

Jeg synes synd i dig, Åse, men fortryt ikke på at jeg ler når jeg ser dig, haha, du er så stiv og indtørket, du har vel ikke engang vand i skrævet. Jeg kunde hjelpe dig med en skjærv, men jeg vil ikke had dig på fingrene. Nei. Du er det som det ikke engang er navn på fra Gud, så ussel er du. Bli i freden!

Cuando uno presta atención a las reacciones del público que visita un parque zoológico, advierte el despilfarro de una piedad sentimental, en la conmiseración que despiertan animales que se encuentran perfectamente, mientras que casi nadie se da cuenta del verdadero sufrimiento, que también existe en la mayor parte de los jardines zoológicos.

This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.

God has pity on kindergarten children.He has less pity on school children.And on grownups he has no pity at all,he leaves them alone,and sometimes they must crawl on all foursin the burning sandto reach the first-aid stationcovered with blood.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

The great (American-definition) liberal Lionel Trilling wrote in 1948 that "we must be aware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes," because "when once we have made our fellowmen the objects of our enlightened interest [we] go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."18 Every mother knows the dangers. And when she loves the beloved for the beloved's own sake, she resists them.