Pity Quotes - Page 5

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Contempt mates well with pity.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

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