132 Pity Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. John Galsworthy

Life Man Power Become Living Evolved Something He Wishing Himself Without Queer Did Different Pity Deprived Thing Living Life

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. John Ridley

Culture Become Way Stature Both Make Because Cling Grab Convenient Pity Victims Plainly Why Elevate

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. John Scalzi

Attention Span People Writing Try Will Tolerance Find Bored Boredom Something Attention Read Reader Very Get Handy Short Short Attention Span Pity Span Low Then Who

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. John Templeton

Science People Will Field Back Our Toward Look Same Pity Centuries Century Us Really Convinced Descendants Now Two

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. Joseph Addison

Country Our Once Die Pity Serve

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Learn May Pity Suffer Need

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. Lionel Blue

Other Sympathy Like Stick Halls Learnt Lecture End Pity Lessons

For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours. Lionel Shriver

You Suffering World Fault Shine Else Something Something Else More Take Read Sake Continue Author Pity Yours Novel Loads

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

Better Easy Condemn Pity

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

Single Collection Russian Trophies Contains Pity

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

Hope Change Will Year Radical Down Every Worse Tennis Soon Getting Going Pity Really Radical Change Drain

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead. Marge Simon

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

Day Me Spend Anybody Pity Who

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. Mark Haddon

People Drama Way Plot Give Disabilities Involvement Without Real Dull Lot Roles Any Quite Just Pity Used

Sensual excess drives out pity in man. Marquis de Sade

Man Out Excess Drives Pity Sensual

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. Mary J. Blige

Life Love Government Myself Me You Love Me Responsibility My Life Feeling Sorry Owes Every Else Took City Something More Mentality Part Parties Gotta Came Than Stopped Anybody Anybody Else Pity Loves Breakthrough Inner Inner City

Pity is just another form of abuse. Michael J. Fox

Abuse Another Just Form Pity

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

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. Nancy Willard

Heart Three Down Took Teller Folklore Armenian Fell Wrote Heaven Listener Pity Story Who Awarded Apple Apples Third

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual. Phil Klay

Suffering Address Perceived Individual Pity Whole

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