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Quotes About Pity

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!
~ Noel Coward
You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.
~ Noah Hawley
Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love I must destroy. I must start a revolution.
~ Osamu Dazai
Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps, even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love, I must destroy.
~ Osamu Dazai
So I feel sorry for her. She really cares about that klutz in the tin can.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I don't do pity kisses," she says. "I don't do pity anything. Pity is patronizing. Pity is an assumption of superiority." "That sounds like your dad." "It is my dad, but he's right. He says kindness is better. Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.
~ Patrick Ness
Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.
~ Patrick Ness
Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.
~ Patrick Ness
Deberías de sentir lástima por él, hijo. Mañana nos iremos, pero él tendrá que convivir consigo mismo hasta el día de su muerte.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's all a chase, and when the race is done, I think I pity women chaste who run.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You can only feel so much pity for an idiot".
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it, it only makes things worse.
~ Paul Auster
But laugh laugh at me Men from around the world especially people from here For there are so many things I don't dare tell you So many things you wouldn't let me say Have pity on me
~ Paul Auster
WL's [White Liberals] think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that. There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates us from roaches
~ Paul Farmer
that all there is is love. Pity us not. Los Angeles 29 June 1987
~ Paul Monette
She simply could not imagine lives ending so soon. Oh, you poor young men, she thought wildly.
~ Unknown
You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.
~ Paul Valery
Pathos is sad and inspires pity, but is not very interesting because there is nothing to learn from it; the audience experiences mostly pity and futility.
~ Unknown
These hands hold nothing. They love most what is wild. They invite no pity
~ Unknown
Heaven reveal some way in pity, Though I doubt it has the power; When in such confused abysses, Heaven is all one fearful presage, And the world itself a riddle.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
~ Unknown