Quotes About Pity

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

When I see your picture in its frame, A strait jacket, pity rises in me, And stronger than pity, revulsion. It is as if you had never been. Nobody in the world can know your love, You are strapped to the nothingness of ages, Nobody can will you into life, It is as if you had never been. I cannot break your anonymity, The absolute has imprisoned you, Most sentient, most prescient, most near. It is as if you had never been.

It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.

I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.

We clergy have gotten ourselves into the job of "sin management" instead of sin transformation. "If you are not perfect, then you are doing something wrong," we have taught people. We have blamed the victim, or have had little pity for victims, while daring to worship a victim image of God. Our mistakes are something to be pitied and healed much more than hated, denied, or perfectly avoided. I do not think you should get rid of

Those Garveyites I knew could never understand why I liked them but would never follow them, and I pitied them too much to tell them that they could never achieve their goal, that Africa was owned by the imperial powers of Europe, that their lives were alien to the mores of the natives of Africa, that they were people of the West and would for ever be so until they either merged with the West or perished.

Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose

She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, -a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by life's delirium. It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression.

Like a lot of people, she thought love solved everything: just smear it over the problem, and it'll all work out. Then they had the arrogance to pity you if you saw things more rationally.

I feel compassion for you, not pity. Never mistake the two.

Odio cuando la gente me tiene lastima.

la piedad de sus enemigos era la peor de las humillaciones.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity;And pity 'tis 'tis true.

For we may pity, though not pardon thee.

What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,That sees into the bottom of my grief?

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

Some of you with Pilate wash your hands,Showing an outward pity.