A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24.

It’s a pity that I failed to reach the final to face Federer.

Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity — to unbind the martyr from the stake — break all the chains — put out the fires...

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

English : Don’t pity if you don’t help!Indonesia: Usah kasihan jika tak bantu!

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War....

You should be nicer to him,’ a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. ‘He has no friends.’ This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember,...

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.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot...

It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we...

He told me that he wanted to do something new. It’s a pity but we have to respect it.

That’s enough feeling for a while nowHands shaking, sweat dripping from his browHe eyed the narrow closet doorThe monster in it asking him to feel moreTill he learned to not hearTo stay away and not...

Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it’s a zombie plague.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Pity, I’ve learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can’t stand anyone else’s.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

And pity–people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you–that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful...

Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my...

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Congratulations.You’ve just been demoted from the “pity” sector to the “apathy” sector.To check the validity of this offer you can ask if anyone cares.To cancel your subscription, go get a life.Thank you.

There you go, being human again,’ said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. ‘It’s not fair, is it, when we’re forced into pitying someone we hate. Feels lik...

Satirize wickedness if you must–but pity weakness.

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chanceassassinations, no advance.Only man thinning out his own kindsounds through the Sabbath noon, the blindswipe of the pruner and his...

Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn’t the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn’t justice, holding...

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don’t act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they thought they had power and really they had nothing. I will never forget...

Umana cosa è l’aver compassione agli afflitti; e come che a ciascuna persona stea bene, a coloro è massimamente richiesto li quali già hanno di conforto avuto mestiere, e hannol trovato in alcuni: fra’ quali,...

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly...

All my life I’d been a believing Christian. … But that instant in the ER–the instant Annette [his wife] died–I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too.As I thought more about it in the...

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

It was a pity this happened right now. I was ready to compete.

Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.”Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.

There were friends all over London who would welcome his eagerly to their homes, who would throw open their guest rooms and their fridges, eager to condole and to help. The price of all of...

When Death, or adverse Fortune’s ruthless gale,Tears our best hopes away, the wounded HeartExhausted, leans on all that can impartThe charm of Sympathy; her mutual wailHow soothing! never can her warm tears failTo balm our...

self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have...

He hasn’t had a lucky season, I must say so it’s a pity. He is almost for sure out of the rest of tournament, but the good thing is he will not miss preseason and...

I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very...

Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William’s little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? — She’s gone.Constance: Oh, it’s a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to...