Pity Quotes by Gloria Naylor, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, James Stewart, Karen Kingsbury, Thomas Southerne and many others.
Contempt mates well with pity.
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life’s difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
Pity’s akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
You ought to pity me ’cause there’s always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him’s more than enough.
Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
If I gave you a pity position it wouldn’t be in my office.
If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor’s redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to–become evil!
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.
The “religion of pity” to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
I’m a fairly tormented artist, and I’m less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy – those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
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.
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn’t learn a subject, but a life…Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead.
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske’s work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems – sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.
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.
When late I attempted your pity to move,
Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
But-why did you kick me downstairs?
Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
But-why did you kick me downstairs?
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Decoration is asked to be ‘merely’ pleasing, ‘merely’ embellishing, and the ‘functional’ logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such ‘mereness.’ This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.
It’s a pity we can’t play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
It’s a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn’t fit into this very thin slice of what’s desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they’re doing.
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God’s image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you’re feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you ‘You think maybe it’s time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,’ it makes you wish you could saw their head off.
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. … All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! … Your interference is doing him positive injury.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.
I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man’s pity.
Self-pity makes people callous.
One wears one’s mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one’s heart in love and yet has more heart to give away. One perishes out of pity for a suffering world, and is stronger therefore. So, too, it is possible at one and the same time to hold on to life and let go.
You shouldn’t wallow in self-pity. But it’s OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
It’s hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.
Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul’s reckoning.
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.
Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying,” Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. “It’s a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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.
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ’s character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
There’s a lot that you can be
And ain’t it a pity
But its alright to smile back at me
And ain’t it a pity
But its alright to smile back at me
Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity’s sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. “I do what I can.” Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. “You are a brave man.
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
[Fr., Mais un pripon d’enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
[Fr., Mais un pripon d’enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
… The truth of the matter is, that most English people don’t know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.
To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that when morning comes and to-morrow is to-day, we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently; careless or impatient, and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned overnight.
I’ve never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn’t feel so sorry for me.
One film critic back in the early days said “It’s a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn’t animated the actors, too.”
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
… Treachery don’t come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
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 memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.
Self-pity – it’s the only pity that counts.
I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
I don’t go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it’s insulting. One is only sorry for people when they’re sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
People who call me a comic actor are uneducated. It is their weakness. I feel pity for them.
I’ve been through so much in my life. I really don’t like the feeling sorry for me, the pity.
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.
I’m not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.
Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I’m out there to win.
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
I feel pity for Mayawati that joined hands even with rival Akhilesh Yadav only in an attempt to stop Narendra Modi.
I don’t even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I’ve arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I’d like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet — a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole.
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.
Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible – what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn’t vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).
The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don’t give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration – or throwing in the towel altogether – they explore what didn’t work and course-correct.
If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don’t be cool.
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.
There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.
The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
The Justice of today is born of yesterday’s pity.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race… After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
My subject is war, and the pity of war.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
I don’t want people to feel sorry for me or pity me – I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts – more clearly than in any book – that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.
During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn’t show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one’s feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He’s picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn’t have a favorite place to feed his mind!
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.
If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it’s contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
No it isn’t very pretty, what a town without pity can do.
This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
The purpose of a short story is … that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.
When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.
It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God’s precious Word.
Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I’ve learned. For a long time that’s what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it’s not going anywhere for me. I don’t want to have any self-pity.
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
Pity is something only weakness wants.
There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won’t listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven’t heard
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.
Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity.
Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity.
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
I learn to pity woes so like my own.
But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.
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. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about – until the ’70s. And then there were things like the film “The Sorrow And The Pity.”
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. ‘The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.’
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,–the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.
She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d, And I lov’d her that she did pity them
Beauty plus pity — that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
What a pity people don’t take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.
Pity makes suffering contagious.
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama’s boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. ‘Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry ‘alas!
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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.
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely ‘take pity’ on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don’t despise it. But it can’t quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
I don’t really get scared. Want to know what else i don’t feel?” PITY
Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
Pity swells the tide of love.
There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.
They tell us that “Pity is akin to Love;” if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world. For centuries women and men went to her sanctuaries to seek her pity and protection. Her domain was originally not just lust, but lust for life.
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.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
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.
But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one’s life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.
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.
A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know–or know not–Love!
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.
Pity is a corroding thing.
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
…long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
I don’t want to look back on my career at some point and say, ‘What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.’
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ‘Tis all barren–and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn’t want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn’t want to show up on the Internet, ‘Tom Brokaw has cancer.’
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war–until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime
And so he did his endless work,’ I continued quietly, ‘without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.
It’s a pity youth is wasted on the young.
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.
Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone
from this sweet volcanic cone
It’s a pity we don’t whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
… real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like — to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you would pity that dog. But then what do you do? Do you leave it there to get run over by more cars, or do you step into traffic and hold up your hand? “Stop! An animal has been hit!” and carry the thing to safety?
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness… proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather – out of pity for the poor.
…and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Where do your greatest dangers lie?–In pity.
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, ‘I am…’ with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.
But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats – more’s the pity.
Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Soft pity enters an iron gate.
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.
Pity melts the mind to love.
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.
Many people have said to me, “What a pity you had such a big family to raise.” “Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that.” And I looked at my children and I said, “These are my poems, these are my stories.”
It’s not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine.”-Cynthia “Doesn’t make yours any more fun to bear.”-Liza “No. But it does help with the self-pity.”- Cynthia
self-sacrifice is one of a woman’s seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).
Like all sick children,’ he answered dispassionately, ‘you say you don’t want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair’s breadth of starving or drowning.
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.
I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your ‘mango’ is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
If you see somebody really pulling for your sympathy while at the same time hurting you intermittently, you should start to wonder. If somebody plays to your pity and really tries to draw that out of you, that’s not normal.
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.
It’s a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.
A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we’ll be on our way, but he’ll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
It is a pity we can’t escape from life when we are young.
Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.
If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.
She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
Two things control man’s character; Strength and Pity
Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.
We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.
What’s interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time – a place of sympathy.
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn’t there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
…trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! – Rebekah –
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.
These are the lords
That have bought titles: men may merchandise
Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
‘Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
It cuts off all desert.
That have bought titles: men may merchandise
Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
‘Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
It cuts off all desert.
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.’
I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
His heart kep’ goin’ pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
It is easy to pity when once one’s vanity has been tickled.
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.
So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
The wheel of a man’s life. No mercy. No pity.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.
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.
I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain’s beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
I pity those who have no taste for reading.
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.
…love and pity for hell’s occupants will not enter our hearts.
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
I’ve covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It’s such a pity more people don’t appreciate what’s on their doorstep.
Self-pity is… a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity’s call. Don’t think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
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.
If it weren’t for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn’t want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: ‘If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world’s wretchedness would rend my heart.
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.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can be taken advantage of are empathy, sympathy, and our tendency to pity somebody when something has gone wrong in their life.
If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Everyone has their set of problems and I’m certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don’t think they warrant that sort of thing. That’s my private karma that I have to work out.
Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.
It’s a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.
Holidays – Have no pity.
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity’d, And not be ruin’d in the mask of bliss, And so be envy’d, and be wretched too!
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love suppliesВ ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbearВ ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.
You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.
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 rise above it.
Pity the Party without enough woman power – there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won’t come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.
self-pity is better than none.
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said… that Titian’s colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
I’ve seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
With ‘Pity Party,’ it’s the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I’m super happy about it.
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!
Don’t let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I’ve given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
Nothing but real love–(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom–the cares and fears of poverty–the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
Pity the man who has a character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is silent poor indeed.
If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
Pity and friendship seek different habitations.
Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.
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.
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
Why, this Satan’s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.
Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.
Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
Have pity on a dinosaur.
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.
Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!
Have interesting failures…. If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don’t wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve…. Don’t pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God’s sake.
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
What a pity when editors review a woman’s book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn’t me today.
Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?
When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.
I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.
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.
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach
my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
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.
Charity isn’t about pity, it is about love.
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.
I’m a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you’re going out-shout me.
An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken’s neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers – a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world… Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
America overflows with specious “victims” demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind’s pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected…but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.
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.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
I was supposed to direct a film on Gautam Buddha. That didn’t work out. A pity, because the entire script had been written. It was in English.
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
When I moved to Manchester, to work as a runner for Granada, I shared with a researcher called Vicky who took pity on my inability to cook and made me meals for three years. Put in charge of cookery on a live kids’ show I’d buy cookies from a shop to show as ‘ones we made earlier.’
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey – and that is what all who suffer are – is enchanting.
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
I’m not going to sit here and say, ‘Pity me; I came from modeling.’ It’s opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they’ve heard the name before. That’s an advantage that I have.
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you’d just be one more person crying.
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity’s eye with her own frozen tear.
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn’t going to help.
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don’t even get that.
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others’ suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
One grows out of pity when it’s useless.
Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
It’s a pity we’re still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene – human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth – is already an undeniable reality.
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.
All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one’s family.
Satirize wickedness if you must–but pity weakness.
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world’s release.
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn’t eternally have been just a retired major.
It’s a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.
I would be lying if I said if I didn’t miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don’t need pity for that.
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Unfortunately, in the environment, I don’t see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that’s 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.
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There’s no harm done.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There’s no harm done.
It’s a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God’s sake, look after our people.
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.
I pause a second. He doesn’t look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do – like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
Pity those who don’t feel anything at all
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
All pity is self-pity.
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
It’s true he was a sinner. But don’t pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don’t forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.
[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn’t talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was too scared. I thought, People are gonna judge me, they’re gonna pity me, and I don’t want that. Because I’m not a victim – I’m a survivor.
Life ain’t all beer and skittles, and more’s the pity; but what’s the odds, so long as you’re happy?
Pity costs nothing, and it ain’t worth nothing.
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker – covetousness.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.
To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred’s a subset of self pity and not the other way around – ‘It destroys everything around it, except itself.’
Pity is just another form of abuse.
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
To me [Edgar Allen Poe’s] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin’s [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane’s. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
God has pity on kindergarten children
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you–these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
Pity it is we drowse too soon
Pity it is we fall asleep
Ere our song encompass the height
Ere our hand inherit the deep
Pity it is we fall asleep
Ere our song encompass the height
Ere our hand inherit the deep
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: ‘You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he’s not a Christian’? I don’t think that is the case – because, you see, God is not a Christian.
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.
Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it’s all part of the healing.
If every man’s internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
But the day I can’t shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I’m washed up for keeps.
I’m no use to anybody,’ I say. ‘I’m a cГ©rГ©brale, can’t you see that?’ Thinking how funny a book would be, called ‘Just a CГ©rГ©brale or You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming’. Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written by a man. What a pity, what a pity!
If you think you’re gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I’m gonna have to help you off your back.
To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day’s observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.
It is a pity that…the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of “Me Decade” possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
It’s a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.
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.
And the more pity that great folk should have count’nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That’s like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
People in distress never think that you feel enough.
Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don’t want anyone to think that you feel bad – even though you might.
Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
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.
Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I’m in love with / New York City.
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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.
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler’s.
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse
Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.
The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
If a man is tongue-tied, don’t laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Trump’s “Make America Great Again” program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping … when you might just be living! … It seems such a pity we can’t live nights too.
It’s a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
It was one lesson he never forgot.You don’t sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don’t act like the goverment with their “proportional responses” and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).
If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God’s mercy.
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.
Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.
Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!
I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment’s hesitation to crush beauty and life.
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.
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.
When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity;
when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes
compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know
all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,
to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are
neither separate from nor superior to anyone.
when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes
compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know
all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,
to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are
neither separate from nor superior to anyone.
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other’s faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.
WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches
You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
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.
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?
This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
I don’t really pity any of my characters. I hold my characters under a harsh fluorescent lamp and ask “Who are you?” I’m not doing their makeup or giving them hairdos. They present themselves to me as they are and then I let them say what they want. Usually they’re saying something too honest.
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.
It wasn’t until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible of pity, or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought.
For their own sake its silence and its shade.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible of pity, or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought.
We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can’t win and stop wallowing in self-pity.
Pity is woman’s sweetest charm.
Sacrificers … are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they’re able to do without.
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What’s out into what’s in.
I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
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.
You will surely smile with me when I say, ‘Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can’t spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a ‘k’ to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet…whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking….capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships…susceptible to physical impressions
Silence in love betrays more woe – Than words though ne’er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.
Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it’s a pity.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Nor did I need anyone’s pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.
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.
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
Britain is no longer one of the world’s price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers – a great pity, on both counts.
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Christianity is called the religion of pity.
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. … Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it’s such a pity that we can’t show how clever we are.
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity – that’s a mistake.
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn’t have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, ‘Don’t you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?’
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
You’re an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance,” Domingo said.
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn’t think I ever would.
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts… it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.
Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.
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.
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is – it can only be – the vigor of his protest against it.
I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don’t get too close man. It’s hard to pity a fool if you get too close.
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?
God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God’s righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
I pity the people who don’t like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don’t get to discover any others.
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.
Care and pity are two different things.
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth.
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn’t make any sense.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.
Suffering… We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
‘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.
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. ‘How everything affects me’ is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love’s sake. Amen.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world’s release.
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
Not hear it? –yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long –long –long –many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it –yet I dared not –oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! –I dared not –I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!
Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.
The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
God pity the poor novelist.
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren’t such things. Do you still not know? Love or righteousness… strong people are the ones who can’t protect those things.
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds
A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
The swell of pity, not to be confined
Within the scanty limits of the mind.
A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
The swell of pity, not to be confined
Within the scanty limits of the mind.
I think it’s a pity that in many people’s minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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.
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy,
but simply justice.
but simply justice.
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.
I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
Tell me I’m a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don’t like you! Don’t you try and teach me no original sin; I don’t need your pity for the shape I’m in
What a pity that ‘nothingness’ has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition… or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.
New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
Mercy, Pity, Peace
Is the world’s release.
Is the world’s release.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.
It’s a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug – once you experience it, you can’t think of anything else.
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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.
A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.
At times, I pity my comedian image. People start laughing seeing me even in funeral processions.
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.
Swearing’s my release. It’s the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.
I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result.
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don’t feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that’s what counts. A half-yard away someone’s world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That’s the misery of the world.
I do not love thee less for what is done,
And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
My love will have a sense of pity in it,
Making it less a worship than before.
And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
My love will have a sense of pity in it,
Making it less a worship than before.
I’m going to do my thing and if you react a certain way – with pity or with anger – that’s up to you.
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.
… we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself … There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.
The path of love has many opponents – fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice – all the usual freinds.
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Г‰owyn!
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason’s hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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.
Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.
Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.
For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr’s death will send them straight to heaven.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.
There’s a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
Through heaven and earth
God’s will moves freely, and I follow it,
As color follows light. He overflows
The firmamental walls with deity,
Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
His pity may do so, His angels must,
Whene’er He gives them charges.
God’s will moves freely, and I follow it,
As color follows light. He overflows
The firmamental walls with deity,
Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
His pity may do so, His angels must,
Whene’er He gives them charges.
And it’s a pity too that I’ve no right to open your letters. I hope you don’t get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn’t good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
