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:

    “I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    ““Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.”
    —F.H. (Francis Herbert)

    “A pity beyond all telling
    Is hid in the heart of love.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)