A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.
If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
. . . that of all the propensities which teach mankind to torment themselves, that of causeless fear is the most irritating, busy, painful, and pitiable.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
All the wild ideas of unbalanced agitators the world over in their ignorant and pitiable quest for happiness through revolution, confiscation of property, and crime, cannot overthrow the eternal truth that the one route to happiness through property or government is over the broad and open highway of service. And service always means industry, thrift, respect for authority, and recognition of the rights of others.
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
O pitiable foolish young man!
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
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