PITY QUOTES V

quotations about pity


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All pity is self-pity.

W. H. AUDEN
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"Interlude: West's Disease", The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays


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Tags: W. H. Auden


Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

"Dialectical Theories of Human Nature"

Tags: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Pity in its embrace strangles respect.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

Tags: Abraham Miller


Pity is for this life, pity is the worm
inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity
is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice--
not enough money, not enough love--pity
for all of us--it is our grace, walking
down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk,
sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity,
turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

GERALD STERN

"Arranging a Thorn"


Self-pity is like a clog in the pipe that stops the flow of life. It is the hand that takes rather than gives.

J. NICOLE WILLIAMSON

Being Fathered for a Divine Purpose


Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Lord of the Rings

Tags: J. R. R. Tolkien


I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

SOPHOCLES

Ajax

Tags: Sophocles


Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Gay Science

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Matthias at the Door


Pity is a noose we can hang ourselves with if we're not careful.

JARED ESTES

"Estes speaks at Memorial Auditorium", Wellington Daily News, April 20, 2016