#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. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#misery #picturesque #pitiable #poverty #rural

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#children #fragile #healthy #healthy people #help

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#condition #pitiable #tell #wish #you

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#eloquently #i #just #pitiable #suffer

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. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#acts #always #deficient #exclusion #i

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ↗

— Cornelius Nepos

#hateful #life #loved #pitiable #power