281 Quotes About Pity

Attention received after pleading is called pity.

Poor goddamned rummies,' Marie said. 'I pity a rummy.''He's a lucky rummy.' 'There ain't any lucky rummies,' Marie said. 'You know that, Harry.''No,' I said. 'I guess there aren't.

additionally: i have discovered this fanfic called the Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles. Some Christian housewife rewrote the first book to get the "evil witchcraft" out of it and i got a fucking ulcer reading it but i also could not stop it's just... so ridiculous? i kept thinking it was a crack fic but i'm 98% sure at this point it's for real. which is even more ridiculous.

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

Though I knew I'd lost weight and was a bit pale, I never considered myself all that sick. I thought of myself as separate from them because of what I'd gone through, but it didn't occur to me until then that people might actually pity me. The idea appalled me.

You didn't ask to be sick. She had said in sympathy and pity. I ignored the pity and embraced the sympathy. What else could I do?

We often worsen someone’s pain by pitying them openly.

- in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to "save" him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.