Pity Quotes - page 2

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. (John Templeton)
Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself. View quote
Norman Angell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. It is, indeed, a pity, but what can we do, since we are all Bulgarians and all suffer from one common disease. If this disease had not been present in our ancestors, from whom we inherited it, they would have never fallen under the sceptre of the Turkish Sultan... View quote
Gotse Delchev
Those who do not complain are never pitied. View quote
Jane Austen
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. View quote
William Blake
Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we. View quote
William Blake
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. (Francis of Assisi)
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young. View quote
Mark Twain
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. View quote
Mark Twain
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. View quote
John Galsworthy
You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said. View quote
William Goldman
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. View quote
Charles Cooley
Reform is born of need, not pity. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little. View quote
Rachel Carson
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. View quote
Horace Mann
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. (Horace Mann)
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire--for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. View quote
George Eliot
I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding-not even that-no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. View quote
Tennessee Williams
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough." View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét