Quotes About Pity

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

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

Should she pity the woman those eyes finally rested on? Or envy her? Beth's

The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away.

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

If the world is to die in misery, let it at least go out with a song on its lips, and pity for itself.

You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain.

I was weeping as much for him as her: we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. 

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. a

nous éprouvons parfois de la pitié pour des êtres qui ne connaissent ce sentiment ni pour eux-mêmes ni pour les autres.

Ocurre a veces que sentimos piedad por gente que ni para consigo misma ni para con los demás conoce este sentimiento.

A veces sentimos piedad por personas que carecen por completo de ella tanto hacia sí mismas como hacia los demás.

I was weeping as much for him as her; we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. 

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others

To pity those that know her not Is helped by the regret That those who know her, know her less The nearer her they get.

A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.

For pity's sake, you are lying in a coffin, Mrs. Crofton. Unless you wish to be buried, I strongly suggest that you resurrect yourself immediately.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelingsóadmiration or pity.

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.

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! 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.