A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written..

Self-pity is the simplest luxury..

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder..

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them..

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me..

The sea has neither meaning nor pity..

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef..

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity..

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't ….

A woman's pity often opens the door to love..

The cow to me is a sermon on pity..