Logo
Quote by John Galsworthy
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of

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

Other quotes by John Galsworthy

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. – John Galsworthy

Category:
Beauty
Author
John Galsworthy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sympathy
category

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:
Sympathy

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. – Anne Sullivan

Category:
Sympathy

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. – Confucius

Category:
Sympathy

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with. – John Irving

Category:
Sympathy

Random Quotes

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that theyre sort of larger than life and I think Im still suffering from that reaction. – Guy Ritchie

Category:
movies

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. – James Cromwell

Category:
Attitude

Come, lets have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Lets mock the midnight bell. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Last Words

Todays medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. Thats been tried too often. Todays medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation. – Maurice Delort

Category:
Medicine