Quotes About Pity

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be, Your attraction to me must in some way lack, Such a pity to spend time on thee.

you're so afraid of everyone pitying you that you'd rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness" - Stacey Michaels

...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more." Pastel Orphans

A celestial camera recorded my every movement, impartially, without judgement or pity. I was marked; I was of interest; I would survive.

And so does pity lead straight to disaster.

I suppose I should've felt sorry for her, but I'd rather be sorry for someone who never had luck at all than for someone whose extreme luck ran out unexpectedly.

Self-pity is the real enemy and the source of man's misery. Without a degree of pity for himself, man could not afford to be as self-important as he is. However, once the force of self-importance is engaged, it develops its own momentum. And it is this seemingly independent nature of self-importance which gives it its fake sense of worth.

In that case I feel sorry for you.' 'Then perform an act of charity.

Those were years of want and misery, strangely blessed by the sort of peace that the dumb and the disabled inspire in us—halfway between pity and revulsion.

One of the doctors who had worked for him in the castle twenty years ago always said that God takes pity on motherfuckers first.

Poor old Rhett, Sawyer mumbled. What about Rhett? I just feel sorry for him if he does come to Burnt Boot. He won't have a pretty little redhead to watch his back.

Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose.

You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity. — Buzz Lightyear

there's always something pathetic about loneliness. I'd experienced it myself. I would ferociously deny I was pathetic, but when I viewed loneliness in someone else, I could feel the tug of pity.

Ah, if I could only make your dear heart ache one little minute of each day as mine does every day and all day long, it might lead you to show pity to your poor lonely one....

The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?

O merciful God, have pity; have pity upon my poor baby! she cried. Heap as much anger as you want to upon me, and welcome; but pity the child!

Al decir que la piedad se esconde en la misma linde del bosque, me refería a la bestia indulgente con garras y fauces feroces y ensangrentadas.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

At once Slothrop understands that he is surrounded by women who have lived a good fraction of their lives at war and under occupation, and for whom people have been dropping out of sight every day . . . yes, in one or two pairs of eyes he finds an old and European pity, a look he will get to know

This was not discrimination against Jews as such, but it was almost as bad: it was an attempt to ignore them altogether. As one Dutch camp survivor put it, 'Where there should have been pity, I encountered the dry, difficult to approach, repellent, amorphous mass known as officialdom.'13

God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.