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Pity Quotes - Page 3

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

"Fictional character: Gloria Price". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

William Blake (2003). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.21, Octavo

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.15

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.349, Penguin

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

William Blake (1885). “The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake”

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.22, The Overlook Press