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:

    By choice they made themselves immune
    To pity and whatever moans in man
    Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
    Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
    Whatever shares
    The eternal reciprocity of tears.
    Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    So you, O nameless Duchess who die young,
    Meet death somewhat lovingly
    And I am filled with a pity of beholding skulls.
    There was no pride like yours.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Don’t pity me now,
    Don’t pity me never;
    I’m going to do nothing
    For ever and ever.
    James Agate (1877–1947)