Quotes and Sayings About Pity
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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
nothing is so binding as pity.
-- Alice Tisdale HobartSource : Alice Tisdale Hobart (1946). “The Peacock Sheds His Tail”
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
-- Amy Lowell -
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
-- Anais Nin -
The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan
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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
-- Anita Brookner -
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
-- Anita Roddick -
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
-- Ann Radcliffe -
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
-- Anne Carson -
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.
-- Ari MarmellSource : Ari Marmell (2012). “Darksiders: The Abomination Vault”, p.99, Del Rey
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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
-- Arthur Helps -
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
-- Ayn RandSource : "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.
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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
-- Bernard Malamud -
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
-- BolesÅ‚aw PrusSource : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.
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Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.
-- Caroline Pafford MillerSource : Caroline Pafford Miller (1944). “Lebanon”
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Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
-- Charlaine Harris -
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ï¬nd no meaning.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
-- Charlotte BinghamSource : "Lucinda". Book by Charlotte Bingham, 1966.
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Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
-- Chris Bosh -
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
-- Chris Cleave -
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
-- Christian McEwen -
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Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
-- Christopher Pike -
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