Pity Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, Compassion, Charity

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• All pity is self-pity.

  W. H. Auden

  Self, Self Pity

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Interlude: West's Disease"), (p. 243), 1962.

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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• I learn to pity woes so like my own.

  John Dryden

  Woe, My Own

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.298

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• No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Guilt, Excuse

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cutting, Wings, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Angel, Light, Darkness

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• It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Hands, Years

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• La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe"  le   o  u' nous battons des me  lodies a'   faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e  toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Moving, Speech

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• Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Hands, Insanity

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

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• Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

  Jonathan Tropper

  I've Learned, Fart, Tolerate

  Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.99, Bantam

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Pain, Men, Agony

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• Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

  Michael Cunningham

  Stars, Silly, Moving

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Mercy, Release

  William Blake (1885). “The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake”

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• Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

  Isak Dinesen

  Believe, Grandmother, Thinking

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• The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

  Sophie Swetchine

  Sympathy, Grief, World

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• I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

  Marilyn Manson

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• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Dream, Food, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.393, Lulu.com

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• At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Gentleman, Next

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