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Pity is like a kind of illness that comes when it is too late and you can't do anything about it.
ROBERT LALONDE, The Devil Incarnate
Every deed of mercy and every act of charity and every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
CLARENCE DARROW, A Persian Pearl and Other Essays
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Matthias at the Door
A man who is prevented from helping by his own pity is like a man who, when he saw another blind, put out his own eyes in sorrow, instead of leading the blind.
JESSIE ETHEL SAMPTER, The Seekers
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
JOHN GALSWORTHY, letter to Thomas Hardy, Mar. 27, 1910
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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