Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

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.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

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

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Pity is treason.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!