. . . trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -
Pity is love in undress.
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping. . . when you might just be living!. . . It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
Reform is born of need, not pity.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
I pity those who have no taste for reading.
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?