Pity quotes

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◆ We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

- Marilyn Monroe100

◆ Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.

- John Webster99

◆ I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me

- Harry Kemp99

◆ To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

- Graham Greene99

◆ Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

- Helen Keller99

◆ Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

- John W Gardner99

◆ Soft pity enters an iron gate.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge99

◆ None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware

- Robert Herrick99

◆ Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

- Garrison Keillor99

◆ More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us

- George Eliot99

◆ However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent

- Pope Pius XI99

◆ Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

- Mark Twain99