Top 105 Pity Quotes

Reform is born of need, not pity.

It’s a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it’s getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Pity? You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

I pity the fool who just gives up.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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.

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one’s stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

I think a sense of family, of commitment to family, and of helping each other and standing by each other, are essential. I pity anyone who doesn’t grow up with that.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

I’m a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you’re going out-shout me.

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God’s feelings with us at all times.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

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.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

People who call me a comic actor are uneducated. It is their weakness. I feel pity for them.

People who pity themselves think, ‘Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.’

Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who ‘took it to heart.’ What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we’re all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn’t feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people’s pity, so I mostly kept my story and my feelings to myself.

Luke Cage isn’t going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, ‘This is the world I’m in. These are the circumstances I have.’ He’s a self-made man. He’s trying to continuously build, and that’s what’s interesting about him. He’s a work in progress.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I’m out there to win.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent’s head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.

I think it’s a pity for him that my father didn’t have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn’t matter. It’s boring. I don’t have any anger about it.

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor’s outfit. A pity we had to give them back.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.

When you’re a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, ‘Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you’re a screwup.’

Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don’t cross.

To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.

Swearing’s my release. It’s the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

In the media, from the little bit that I have read… there’s not a lot of pity. There are some people, usually older people who have been around or people who really know basketball. Other people in the media are usually like, ‘Well, stop getting injured.’ You know, like I can control it.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we’re desperate, if we feel like we’re beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we’re tradesmen.

I’ve often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one’s even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It’s a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

‘Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou’d, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don’t want pity or random advice.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity’s self be dead.

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

There’s a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

I think it’s a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they’re, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we’re not that.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I’ve never done anything else.