People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

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

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction.

He best can pity who has felt the woe.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

Pity melts the mind to love.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

A tear dries quickly, especially when it is shed for the troubles of others.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.