Quotes About Pity

No pity, I cannot bear that. I have lived far beyond the age of most men. Though it is always better not to see your end walking down the road towards you.

And, much more than hate, it is pity which is the opposite, the doom, of love. For to love or hate truly, you need to be equals, or at least close in strength. But pity is a thing which flows from the strong to the weak.

Grandfather had a saying: If you know a lot, know enough to make people respect you. If you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.

You are filled with anguish For the suffering of others. And no one's grief Has ever passed you by. You are relentless Only to yourself, Forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon Your own sadness from a distance, Just once with a loving soul— Oh, how you would pity yourself. How sadly you would weep. —Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917

Sorrow and helplessness join the pity party, and I despise both. These emotions are not innocent, but deadly. They devoured my past, eating at my happiness until nothing remained; i can't cede my present or my future, too.

Sympathy would imply I might even try to help them. Pity is much safer. It can be delivered from on high without getting involved. I pity them.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

He invited me to his pity party, and I really want to leave.

What a mystery a marriage was. What a strange and violent world, the world of matrimony. I was glad to be outside it. The idea of it filled me with a sort of queasy pity.

One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression. A Tale of Two Sisters

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

I force myself to take deep, slow breaths, feeling quite certain the cameras are on my face. I can't show weakness at this injury. Not if I want help. Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.