Quotes About Pity

In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people's shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

Era il giorno ch'al sol si scoloraro per la pietà del suo factore i rai… Antonio

You pity me?" "You are not living, you are surviving.

seguramente el amor, igual que la piedad según Nietzsche, nunca había sido otra cosa que una ficción inventada por los débiles para culpabilizar a los fuertes, para imponer límites a su libertad y su ferocidad naturales.

Adónde volver los ojos en busca de libertad? El sacristán: —¡A Dios, que es todopoderoso! El estudiante: —¿Para qué, si no responde?... El sacristán: —Porque esa es Su Santísima voluntad... El estudiante: —¡Qué lástima! La

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

And in touching your own nothingness, in not feeling your permanent base, in not reaching your own infinity, still less your own eternity, you will have a whole-hearted pity for yourself, and you will burn with a sorrowful love for yourself--a love that will consume your so-called self-love, which is merely a species of sensual self-delectation, the self-enjoyment, as it were, of the flesh of your soul.

Her older sister used to say that men hated pity; rather, they wanted sympathy and admiration—not an easy combination.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

It was with a shock of pitying surprise that she realized, in later years, that the grown-ups had missed the paradise which the children found so easily.

I pity you, FOOL!

Do not confuse the word pity with love. The rich pity the poor. If pity is the key to the gates of heaven, then it is impossible to accept this price. No one wants to become a weakling either.

The truth is that: We are unhappy married and unmarried we're unhappy. In marriage you must first endure, pity and then embrace.

I think," he says at last, "that it is a great pity she will not trust in me.

Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

The nobleman fell to his knees. 'Sir, come down to my son ere he die.' His old face. His love for his son. None of us spoke, the old man kneeling so. I watched your eyes. The pity that pooled, this love of the father. 'Go thy way; thy son lives,' you said. And he raised his face to you, and we could see that he believed.

Car si elle n'avait jamais agi ainsi consciemment, elle se rendait bien compte qu'une femme pouvait confondre amour et pitié, et s'attacher à un homme dans l'espoir de le sauver. Ou qu'elle pouvait y voir comme un défi, persuadée qu'elle et elle seule pourrait le secourir, le protéger et le rendre heureux.

They were afraid of the child. Fursey didn't know whether to pity her or be glad for her. Fear could always be used.

You get the look of a man haunted by guilt. Anyone might believe you're keeping a dreadful secret. Well, there is no secret I know of that can't be helped by food. So for pity's sake come sit, and while we eat we'll talk of what's to be done about Artos.

Jamais la pitié ne s'empare aussi fortement de nous qu'au spectacle de la beauté atteinte par le souffle délétère de la débauche.

In effetti la pietà non ci assale mai così violentemente come alla vista della bellezza toccata dal soffio corruttore del vizio. Ancora ancora gli si accompagnasse la deformità, la bellezza, la tenera bellezza... nei nostri pensieri si unisce soltanto all'innocenza e alla purezza.

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.