Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.
An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.
nothing is so binding as pity.
Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in love and yet has more heart to give away. One perishes out of pity for a suffering world, and is stronger therefore. So, too, it is possible at one and the same time to hold on to life and let go.
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!
It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.
I learn to pity woes so like my own.
Pity is akin to love.
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.