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  1. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
    book-quotehard-workpity

  2. Eoin Colfer _ Airman

    A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
    book-quotepityfallladder

  3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Crime and Punishment

    - in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to "save" him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.
    book-quotepityself-sacrifice

  4. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
    book-quotepitysatireweakness

  5. John Fowles _ The French Lieutenant's Woman

    Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore.
    book-quotepitypridewhore

  6. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn't interested in a little black girl's dreams.
    book-quotehopeagingyouth

  7. Juliet Marillier _ Daughter of the Forest

    I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.
    book-quotepity

  8. R. Scott Bakker

    He said ..." A pause. He cleared his throat. "He said that pity was the only love I could hope for.
    pity

  9. Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Thorns and Roses

    Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him."Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
    book-quotepityheartfeyre

  10. Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Thorns and Roses

    Pity those who don't feel anything at all."
    book-quotepity

  11. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    By Allah, how _thankful_ he is {_yes, madam, one moment, madam_}, how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now {_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_}, expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .
    book-quotepitypatienceimpatience

  12. Herman Melville _ Bartleby

    To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
    book-quotepainpity
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