Quotes About Pity

I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.

En mí todo es o bien adoración y pasión, o bien lástima y comprensión. Raramente odio, si bien, cuando lo hago, odio atrozmente.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

If you're looking for pity, forget it, Connie retorted. You've passed up more dates than I care to count. You're married to your work. A pause. And maybe to the past.

As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.

Around the world his pity flies, its wingspan as wide as an albatross's.

He can see the expression on his face, and what is one to do with pity? Is it all just useless Confederate money?

But he can no more feel sorry for Swift—

He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.

I never saw the approaches of death in a grown person before; and was extremely shocked. Death, to one in health, is a very terrible thing. We pity the person for what she suffers: and we pity ourselves for what we must some time hence in like sort suffer; and so are doubly affected.

Unhappy, indeed, must the woman be, who has drawn upon her the helpless pity of the man she loves!

It was bad to be embarrassed, hard to be ashamed. But pitied? That was the worst of all.

The poor guy," she said, and this was remorse over her savage speed and rashness as well as pity for this boy, haunting the mouth of an alley with that toy of swift decisions.

Be a man, and conquer an unhappy attachment toward a creature who can do nothing but pity you.

Hast thou, then, nothing more to mention? Com'st ever, thus, with ill intention? Find'st nothing right on earth, eternally? MEPHISTOPHELES No, Lord! I find things, there, still bad as they can be. Man's misery even to pity moves my nature; I've scarce the heart to plague the wretched creature.

please practice moderation. Your mind, your knowledge, your talents offer you resources to happiness! Be a man, and conquer this tragic devotion from a creature who can do nothing but pity you.

I'd pity you," she said in a conversational tone. "But you know,you just aren't worth it. I'd pity your new son, too,but he won't be worth it either after you get done raising him to be just like you-that's if he's even really yours or just-" "Get out!" Mortimer cut in furiously.

So man, amongst his fellow brutes expos'd, See's he's a king, but 'tis a king depos'd; Pity him, beasts! you by no law confin'd, Are barr'd from devious paths by being blind.

He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

when we gaze in unbounded admiration on that ineffable mercy of His, which with unwearied patience endures countless sins which are every moment being committed under His very eyes, or the call with which from no antecedent merits of ours, but by the free grace of His pity He receives us;