#pitiful

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#cold #dawn #evening #flowers #frivolity

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all. ↗

— Black Elk

#am #beautiful #because #did #die

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ↗

— Sean O'Faolain

#gay #kind #over #pessimists #pitiful

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#knocking #lawmakers #our #pathetic #pitiful

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #gold #his #into #men

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#body #chest #collapsed #cuts #deteriorate

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#barack #barack obama #began #came #change

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#also #counted #i #i think #only