Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Pity is treason

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Pity is love in undress.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

People can portray me anyway they want because I don’t give a damn… But don’t you analyze me and don’t you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don’t you dare do it until then.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

No one likes to be pitied for his faults.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.