Pity Quotes

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

Never take yourself too seriously.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?