Pity Quotes

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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs,

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

Love Africa Pity Sierra Leone

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion,

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.

Knowledge Peace News Flattery Gossip Culture Compassion Pity Pop Culture Pop Popular Autotune Bandwagon Popular Culture

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye impo

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.

Charlotte M. Liebel

Attitude Love Sleep Commitment Attraction Pity Attention Unrequited Love Lack Of Interest Annoyed Demands

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

Pity Envy

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

William Shakespeare

Conscience Shakespeare Pity Richard Iii

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

Imagination Pity Scorn

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rai

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

Books Reading Pity Illiteracy

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to m

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Christopher Hitchens

Friends Pity School Bullying Schoolmates

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart

Risk Risk Taking Pity

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has c

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have litt

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride Conquest Pity