. . . trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -
I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive. ” “Pity.
The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
Soft pity enters an iron gate.
Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.
But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.