Pity Quotes - Page 7

• Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

  Edwin Arnold

  Sympathy, Blood, Needs

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.79, Routledge

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• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Laughing, Failing

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.14

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• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Art, Pain

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Portable Conrad”, p.48, Penguin

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• Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, People, Mount Rushmore

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• What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

  Claude Monet

  Men, Painting, Said

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• Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

  Clement Greenberg

  Sacrifice, Rooms, Logic

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Venice, Style

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• [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Love, Writing, Play

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• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  Patsy Cline

  Couple, Fighting, Mind

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?

  Robert Clark

  Homeless, Masturbation

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• O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Brother, Prayer, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

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• Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dog, Two, Feet

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• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Utterance, Ghost

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• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

  Joaquin Miller

  Brother, War, Heart

  Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49

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• Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

  Shantideva

  Pride, Evil, Suffering

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• The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Yoga, Self

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• We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Indulge In

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• The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the towel altogether - they explore what didn't work and course-correct.

  Lauren Mackler

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Suffering, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1862). “The adventures of Philip on his way through the world”, p.158

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• Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

  Criss Jami

  People, Treats, Looking Down

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

  Ari Marmell

  Determined, Follow Me, Seems

  Ari Marmell (2012). “Darksiders: The Abomination Vault”, p.99, Del Rey

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

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