Quotes about pity

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

— Sir Edwin Arnold

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

— Josh Billings

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

— Albert Camus

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

— John Galsworthy

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

— Samuel Johnson

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

— J. C. Macaulay

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

— Andre Maurois

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

— Italian Proverb

Pity is treason.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

— Marquis De Sade

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.

— Ojibwa Saying

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

— William Shakespeare

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

— Mark Twain

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

— Miguel De Unamuno

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

— Jane Austen

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

— George Eliot