But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.
Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can be taken advantage of are empathy, sympathy, and our tendency to pity somebody when something has gone wrong in their life.
Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.