132 Pity Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore. Ava Gardner

Simple Lust Nobody Anymore Pity Believes

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dignity People Will Poverty Strip Easy See Objects Never Clearer Without Reduce Context Been Than American Any Lacking Human Africa Pity Conflicts Which Human Dignity Them Poor Agency Poor People View Inherently Shown Media

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. Corazon Aquino

My husband often remarked what a pity it was that a great country like America, which in Europe is still regarded as such a young nation, should be represented seemingly only by old or infirm men. Grace Kelly

Great Old Men Husband Country Nation Young Great Country Seemingly Only Like Still America Often Pity Regarded Which Should Europe

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann

Fear Relieve Distress Godlike Human Pity

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

Myself Me Envy Care Long Enjoy Others Pity Either

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier. Marian Keyes

Today War Day You Every Day Tough Looking Every Mindset Once Alive Easier Constantly Pretty Like Yeah Shift Up Uneasy Getting Going Pity Much Really

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it. Michael Morpurgo

War Change People Futility About Both Absolute Divide Write Because Understand Forever Want Pity Them

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. Richard Steele

Fool Object He Until Himself Within Pity Flattered

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. Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Love God Feelings Worst Possible Self Self-Pity Opposite Affect Times Disease Just Pity Which Mankind Then Us

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. Amy Lowell

Alone Loneliness Me You Moon Before Prone Am Pity

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

Me You Think Latina Miami Going Pity

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. Andre Gide

Love Prayer Old Soil Made Beauty Whatever Young Too Caress Seems Join Joined Soon Make Were Hands Pity Them

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

Myself Strike Release Destiny Weapon Without Pity Against Swearing Defend

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party. Anna Paquin

Myself Made Party Giant Throw Outsider Like Because Felt Always Am Pity While Choices Planning Professional

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

Affection Recipes Admiration Surest Mixture Pity

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Arundhati Roy

Silence Nation Minds Writers Pity Speaking

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

Time Nothing Directors Most Pity Which Much Required

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. Barney Oliver

Travel Made Become Society Gave Would Would-Be Price Never Contact Fair Fair Chance Pity Frustrated Elected Chance

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly. Berkeley Breathed

Art You Finished Ways Physical Some Price Miss Longer Piece Terribly Wall Hang Pity Biggest Paint Pays Now

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something. Bill McKibben

Political Offended Every Worse Danger Alive Stay Constituent Something Campaign Jungle Trying Senator Done Donor Representative Pity Wants Poor Might Turn Who Actually

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. Bryan Procter

Grief Band More Instruments Than Pity Speaks Sweetly

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

World Would Would-Be Pity Shortage Breasts Yours Damage

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