Pitiful Quotes

“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.”
― Christiaan Huygens, Cosmotheoros: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants of the planets

“Moi, je ne m’exprime jamais comme les autres !... Je ne fais rien comme les autres!... Mais j’en suis bien fatigué !... bien fatigué !...”
― Gaston Leroux, Le Fantôme de l'opéra

“PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?”
― Öykü Yelkencioğlu

“We sometimes feel sorry for someone because of a situation or an event for which they have prayed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Young widows are always a painful sight to see. Jilted brides are even more pitiful than young widows—at least widows had been loved and cherished.”
― Cristiane Serruya, Not A Book

“We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We often worsen someone’s pain by pitying them openly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We often pity someone we ought to envy, or envy someone we ought to pity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is something innately pitiful about a man in vambraces spewing up his breakfast.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart