281 Quotes About Pity

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too.As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't created us in His image; maybe we'd created god in our image.

They'd smother what was left of her pride in well-meaning sympathy.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant’s Whore.

Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.

Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament