281 Quotes About Pity

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance! Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.I do not feel any Pity for Gollum. He deserves death.Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends

The stars have no pity for what goes on below.

The most we can ask, the least we can give, is pity.

However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to smile - such innocence in the way he wanted to understand me, and such possibility of pain, along with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't be harmed - that I pulled away.

People who died of starvation are not nearly as pitiful as those who died of overeating.

Is that what you are going to do when someone tries to take your life from you? Or the lives of your family? Yield and hope that they take pity on you?

And, much more than hate, it is pity which is the opposite, the doom, of love. For to love or hate truly, you need to be equals, or at least close in strength. But pity is a thing which flows from the strong to the weak.

No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.