Words matter. These are the best Pitiful Quotes from famous people such as Sean O’Faolain, Dolly Parton, Black Elk, Stella Young, Michael Leunig, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
I’ve been to those places where it’s ‘poor, pitiful me.’
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Most disability charity hinges on that notion – that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human – the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic’s point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I’m fairly healthy, it’s hard to stay dismal for very long.
Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
It is pitiful working in the industry and I see the flaws all the time. Though, if I have to watch something, then I prefer either horror or comedy because I don’t know how those genres really work.
It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer’s life is well charted.
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure – chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
I’m knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
I’m knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
