Quotes About Pity

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

I pity your poor bleeding heart

There was a pity in her eyes which gave me some comfort, though not much; a man whose soul is crying out for love does not want pity.

before. He wore a look of stern sadness and infinite pity. As I expected, he murmured, with that hissing inspiration

is enough to dry up the springs of pity in one's heart

God pity a one-dream man.

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

This is where, in a cheap novel, the couple, confronted by imminent oblivion, would suddenly make passionate love. It was a pity Nettie was now as old as she was.

they believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn't have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history, and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot.

Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things (later, Lord Downey of the Guild said, "We took pity on him because he'd lost both parents at an early age. I think that, on reflection, we should have wondered a bit more about that").

Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.

Sympathy isn't quite as bad. Sympathy says, I know how it feels, doesn't it just suck? Pity means they think you're defeated

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

Pour elle, l'enchantement commençait. Pour lui, la pitié excluait déjà le désir.

I struck out at the people who love me. Because I wanted understanding more than pity. Because I wanted respect more than comfort.