Pity Quotes - Page 2

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

God pity the poor novelist.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

What you are comes to you.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

...maximize the serendipity around you.