281 Quotes About Pity
- Author Stella Young
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We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
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- Author Aletheia Luna
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One of the major reasons why empaths and narcissists are attracted to each other is because of the empaths desire to help the narcissist, and the narcissist’s desire to take advantage of the empath’s emotional support. As I mentioned before, pity is our Achilles heel, and we often mistake it for the experience of love.
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- Author Daisy Johnson
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The understanding pity of others is a hole.
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- Author Jodi Picoult
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I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.
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- Author Suzanne Collins
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
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- Author Dorothy Parker
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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- Author Cathy East Dubowski
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You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity.— Buzz Lightyear
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