Pity

Pity

Pity originally means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and was once used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "sympathy" and "empathy". Through insincere usage, it now has more unsympathetic connotations of feelings of superiority or condescension.

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Famous quotes containing the word pity:

    “All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Intellectual disgrace
    Stares from every human face,
    And the seas of pity lie
    Locked and frozen in each eye.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
    That she in peace may wake and pity me.”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)