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Quotes About Pity

Let me set my mournful dittyTo a merry measure;Thou wilt never come for pity,Thou wilt come for pleasure.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yet when Raphaël envies their life of wild abandon, Aquilina's response is sobering: " 'Happy!' said Aquilina with a smile of pity, or terror, in giving the two friends a horrible look. 'Oh! You don't know what it's like to be condemned to pleasure with death in your heart.
~ Unknown
Poor horse. It was leap and die or live and be haunted by the ability to choose. Which when I think about it, might be one definition of consciousness. I pitied just about everybody.
~ Peter Heller
It was leap and die or live and be haunted by the ability to choose. Which when I think about it, might be one definition of consciousness. I pitied just about everybody.
~ Peter Heller
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
~ Deuteronomy 7:16
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
~ Deuteronomy 19:13
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
~ Deuteronomy 28:50
Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
~ Judges 2:18
Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
~ 2 Samuel 12:6
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
~ Job 19:21
For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
~ Psalm 102:14
Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
~ Jeremiah 15:5
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
~ Lamentations 2:2
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
~ Lamentations 2:17
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
~ Ezekiel 5:11
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í
~ Ezekiel 7:4
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
~ Ezekiel 8:18
And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
~ Ezekiel 9:5
But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
~ Ezekiel 9:10
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
~ Ezekiel 20:17
I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,í declares the Lord GOD.”
~ Ezekiel 24:14