What’s interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time – a place of sympathy.
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.
College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it’s a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.
Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.
You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don’t care about the money. And when they disappear, it’s a pity.
It’s a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.
When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves… a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
I do believe in my national identity. I’m very proud, of what I come from and where I come from, and there are values up there that I like and that I hold on to: loyalty I suppose, and a sense of humour, and a lack of self pity.
If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.
I love my black hair, but some imes I’d like to be blond, but I don’t think it suits Asian girl… What a pity!
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there’s a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I’ve learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity – that’s a mistake.
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.
I’ve held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again. I never wanted to face the press again. But God gave me healing gifts.
In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it’s ‘isn’t it a shame, isn’t it a pity, isn’t it awful, the terribly poor things… ‘ whereas from within, it’s nothing like that. It’s fantastic, it’s glamorous, it’s terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.
She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
I feel pity for Mayawati that joined hands even with rival Akhilesh Yadav only in an attempt to stop Narendra Modi.
Care and pity are two different things.
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
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.
When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe and pleasing setting.
I didn’t tell people because I didn’t want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn’t get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don’t have to be victims.
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Pity is treason.
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