Best devil & pity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.”

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.”

Ifs Men Might Earth Pain Purpose Enjoy Pleasure Bed Reflection Devil Angel Charity Endure Ill Possession Envy Pity Possessed Distress Doing Good Death Bed

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.”

People Thinking Way Want Heart Seems Certain Heaven Sorrow Devil Rounds Complaining Superiors Pity

Author:Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

“You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.”

Boys Hell Devil Bunch Pity Nazi Arriving

Author:Curt Siodmak

“I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.”

Laughing Devil Pity

Book:Billy Sunday speaks

Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.”

Real Self Problem Used Party Devil Pity Self Pity Real Problems Pity Party

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein”

Source: Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus

“It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.”

Self Might Would Be Able Goal Emotion Achieve Prove Summer Devil Flow Driven Pity Command Mediums Reaching Alabama

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

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