Quotes About Pity

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

Are you so sure the person crying out to be saved has not decided a thousand times to accept his lot of pointless and worsening suffering, simply because it is easier than shouldering any true responsibility? Are you enabling a delusion? Is it possible that your contempt would be more salutary than your pity?

No mais fundo do seu coração ele tinha pena da desgraça de todos. E rindo, e ridicularizando, era que fugia da sua desgraça. Era como um remédio.

O Sem-Pernas sentia que uma angústia o tomava e que era impossível dormir. Se dormisse viriam os maus sonhos da cadeia. Queria que aparecesse alguém a quem ele pudesse torturar com dichotes. Queria uma briga. Pensou em ir acender um fósforo na perna de um que dormisse. Mas quando olhou da porta do trapiche, sentiu somente pena e uma doida vontade de fugir. E saiu correndo pelo areal, correndo sem fito, fugindo da sua angústia.

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country

How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue! 80 Who would not be that youth? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!8 —Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war. 85 —Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

None could see her without pity, unless he had a felon's heart; she was so tightly bound. The tears ran down her face and fell upon her grey gown where ran a little thread of gold, and a thread of gold was twined into her hair.

They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

We wouldn't believe that the Germans, known as the enlightened world as 'bearers of culture,' were capable of planning and carrying out, in cold blood, without pity, the mass destruction of human beings by industrial means, as if they were bedbugs, flies, or other pests to be exterminated.

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.

Nous avions un camarade qui devenait facilement bossu. Il avait l'air si pitoyable que souvent dans le métro les Allemands lui cédaient leur place. Il s'asseyait avec mille précautions. Il portait beaucoup de choses dans sa bosse.

How could StarClan do this? Have they no pity?" she spat. "I will never go to the Moonstone again!

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

For he will rescue the poor who cry for help, Also the lowly one and whoever has no helper. He will have pity on the lowly and the poor, And the lives of the poor he will save. From oppression and from violence he will rescue them, And their blood will be precious in his eyes.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Show pity I beg you... We have today been struck down by fortune But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.

as though the soul's abundance does not sometimes spill over in the most decrepit metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of their needs, their ideas, their afflictions, and since human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing-bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.