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“Pity is love in undress.”

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.”

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Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!”

Knows Love Heart Earth Beautiful Love Is Pay Birth Dear Pity Welcome Dear God

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”

Love Made Hands Seems Young Literature Prayer Pity Soil Caress

Author:Andre Gide

“If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city; A little proud, but full of pity; Light and humorous in her toying, Oft building hopes, and soon destroying, Long, but sweet in the enjoying; Neither too easy nor to hard; All extremes I would have barr'd.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

“Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.”

Love Lord Separation Pity

Author:Albert Camus

“Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.”

Love Kind Love Is Slavery Slave Pity Kind Words

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.”

World Love Humans Heart Real Care Loss Known Poverty Millions Cold Pity Despise Real Love Human Heart Love Respect

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.”

Ifs Love Soul Dies Creatures Despair Pity

Author:William Shakespeare

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”

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Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Pity swells the tide of love.”

Love Pity Tides

Book:The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts

Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts

“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”

World Love Wells Soul Christian House Wish Religious Pity God Love

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend