Pity Quotes - Page 31

• DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't such things. Do you still not know? Love or righteousness... strong people are the ones who can't protect those things.

  Kim Do-hoon

  Love, Strong, Drama

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• That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until now, I was just powerless and pitiful to you. So you thought I'd take any helping hand offered to me. Right?

  Jo Yoon-hee

  Drama, Pride, Hands

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Lying, Intuition

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Father, Flames, Evil

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• There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

  Lucas Malet

  Love, Girl, Honesty

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.

  John Joseph Griffin

  Military, Heart, Science

  John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232

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• Christianity is called the religion of pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Christianity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

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• Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Blessed, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

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• I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Art, Wall, Missing

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• You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Mind Your Own Business, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.335, Harvard University Press

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• Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

  E. M. Forster

  Past, Clouds, Students

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• There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Passion, Men, Lust

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1531, e-artnow

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• What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Compassion, Doe, Arms

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• Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

  Jessie Burton

  Hate

  Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Envy, Perspective, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.45, Penguin

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• It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Envy, Human Nature

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• Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

  Oscar Levant

  Self, Self Pity

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• Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

  Robert Breault

  Angel, Race, Demon

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• It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Psychology, Human Nature, Psychiatrist

  Observer 9 December (1934)

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• There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moving, People, Trouble

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.5, Grove Press

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• Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Comment, Misfortunes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

  William Ernest Henley

  Men, Done, Immortality

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Wrath, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.13, Diversion Books

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• For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

  Eudora Welty

  Stories, Emotion, Speak

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