Pity Quotes

If we stop to gaze upon a star, People talk about how bad we are. Ours is not an easy age, We’re like tigers in a cage. What a town without pity can do.

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!”

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.

Oh, brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother; where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.

Pity embedded lies where love hath been.

Pitiful, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.