281 Quotes About Pity
- Author Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
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El envidioso, a los hombres irritables causa cólera; a los reflexivos tan sólo inspira lástima.
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- Author Robert G. Ingersoll
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Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn't the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn't justice, holding aloft her scales, from which she blows even the dust of prejudice, be as noble, as admirable as now? Is it not better to love justice and mercy than to love a name, and when you put a name above justice, above mercy, are you sure that you are benefiting your fellowmen?
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- Author Mitch Albom
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I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.
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- Author Robert G. Ingersoll
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Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science? Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?
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- Author Emily Brontë
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We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others
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- Author Steven Erikson
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Love could be such a squalid emotion: burning bright in the midst of pathos, the subject of pity and contempt, it blazed with brilliant stupidity all the same.
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- Author Vann Chow
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The face of self-pity was universally understood.
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- Author Ace Antonio Hall
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Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Lord God have pity on us, grant our petition.
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