Quotes tagged ‘Pity’

“Oh, there is nothing quite as good as feeling sorry for yourself, is there?”

— Mart Crowley, Michael, Jim Parsons, imdb.com

“Envy the country that has heroes, huh? I say pity the country that needs them.”

— Gregg Shabot, Kevin Peterka, Matt Greenberg, Denton Van Zan, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

“Trucks came to pick up the children at the mental hospital. The other children asked where they were going. ‘They're going to heaven,’ said the nurses. So the children got on the truck singing. You think I wasn't raised right, because I felt pity for them?”

— Fred Breinersdorfer, Sophie Magdalena Scholl, Julia Jentsch, imdb.com

“Lisa: Ralph thinks I like him but I only gave him a valentine because I felt sorry for him. Homer: Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?”

— Frank Mula, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“Well, frankly, I pity the lot of you. You look out there and see a problem, I look out there and see an opportunity. I'm gonna slide on that slippery floor all the way from Holt's office to the elevator.”

— David Phillips, Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg, imdb.com

“Charlie: [in a wheelchair and army vet attire] This costume, the chicks is gonna go crazy all over it. Frank: Maybe you should let me do all the talking. Charlie: No, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. So watch and learn. Stripper: Awww, look at you sweetie, what happened? Charlie: [shouting] Viet…”

— Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Kelly, Charlie Day, imdb.com

“It was a man and he was begging, and pleading, and praying, I guess. And he was ‘Please, God’n all over the place. So I told him he could have a half an hour to pray to God and if God could come down and change the circumstances, he'd have that time. But God never showed up and he never changed the…”

— Richard Kuklinski, dailystar.co.uk

“Is it unnatural that I should have absorbed these things and have become what I am today, a treacherous, degenerate, brutal, human savage, devoid of all decent feeling, without conscience, morals, pity, sympathy, principle or any single good trait? Why am I what I am?”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, my only regret is that I wasn't born.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency. My only regret is that I wasn't born dead or not at all.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“Loss inherently makes the loser sympathetic. We can easily be made to feel bad for the person on the other side of a true catastrophe, even if just minutes before we thought they had it coming to them.”

— Ryan Holiday,

“Finn: Thanks for being cool and all, but what do ya know about this Magic Man? How do we catch him? Gork: Ohh, he can't be caught. He's got magic. And we're worthless freaks, we can't ever beat him! So we've gathered here to wallow in our self-pity.”

— Pendleton Ward, Tom Herpich, Finn the Human, Jeremy Shada, imdb.com

“Respect should be reserved for the kind and the morally courageous. Pity is another socially valuable response, and it should be reserved for innocent people who are in genuine pain or who have fallen on misfortune.”

— Martha Stout, amazon.com

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.de

“Look at you! Look at what you've sunk to! Look at what you've become! Look in the mirror, ’cause you need help, Jerry. You need help, because I can't stand by and do it anymore. It's turning my stomach! I can't stand around here watching you destroy yourself. It's eating me up inside.”

— Peter Mehlman, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“I should be in a place like this; I envy this woman. You get to wear slippers all day. Friends visit. They pity you. Pity is very underrated. I like it, it's good. Plus, they give you those word association tests. I love those.”

— Elaine Pope, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“The other day, you walked by me with your friends and I could feel the pity in your stare. Don’t you do that. Don’t you look at what I had for you and call it weak. Not when you were the one afraid of it.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

“I may find peace within the emptiness, how pitiful.”

— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com

“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”

— Herodotus, amazon.com

“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others – The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com