281 Quotes About Pity

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

Paperwork, paperwork with a woman who pats my head while shaking her own. I step back, hating pity, having learned from Mother that the pity giver feels better, never the pity receiver.

You’re toomuch of a pain in the ass to be pitied.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

الألم نعمة، فالبشرية من دون ألم، لا تعرف الخوف أو الشفقة، فمن دون خوف، لا يمكن أن يكون هناك تواضع، ويصبح كل إنسان وحشا، فرؤية الألم عند الآخرين يولِّد فينا الشّفقة، وفي شفقنا تكمن إنسانيتنا، خلاصنا.

He said ..." A pause. He cleared his throat. "He said that pity was the only love I could hope for."He saw her swallow, blink. "Oh, Akka ..."Of all the world, only she truly understood. Of all the world.

I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other.

It was foolish to cast someone as a saint just because they had suffered.

Pity is a useless emotion