Pity Quotes - Page 19

• Pity drowns in numbers.

  Mason Cooley

  Numbers

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• I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Vocabulary, Culture, Abstract

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Party, Men, Looks

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• Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Reality, Men

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Real, Heart

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• I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

  Josh Billings

  Sorrow, Cures, Knows

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• I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

  Thomas Browne

  Knowledge, Men, Envy

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.121

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Self, Creative, Emotion

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 28), 1980.

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• There is no creature loves me;
  And if I die, no soul will pity me.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Despair

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

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• Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Heart, Glasses

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• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Pain, Suffering, Helping

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• People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.

  Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Mutants, Cripples

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

  I. L. Peretz

  Stars, Sky, Heaven

  "Drei Matones" (1904-1915). As quoted in "Peretz" by S. Liptzin, p. 187, 1947.

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• Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

  Ruth Graham

  Marriage, Couple, Too Much

  Ruth Bell Graham (2001). “Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love”, Baker Pub Group

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• kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mistake, Kissing, Kissing Someone

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• This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Heart, Love Is

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

  Rose McGowan

  Stupid, Idiot, Deals

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

  Tito Colliander

  Reality, Self, Evil

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.18, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Book

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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