Mary Shelley

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

English Author

Patrick Modiano

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

French Novelist

Tom Junod

Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who keeps on singing, and that's a bad singer who keeps on singing because he has issues.

American Journalist

Marie Antoinette

The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.

French Royalty

Toni Morrison

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

American Novelist

Christina Hoff Sommers

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

American Author

Cornelius Nepos

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Roman Author

Anthony Trollope

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Publilius Syrus

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Roman Writer

Joni Mitchell

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Canadian Musician

Use 'pitiable' to express that someone's situation is so sad it makes people want to help them.

Deserving Sympathy

'Pitiable' can describe a situation, showing empathy without suggesting that a person is weak.

Not Always Weakness

Although 'pitiable' involves empathy, it often carries a negative tone suggesting a person is in a bad condition.

Negative Emotion

 clear in this idea that there's something wrong with choosing to be gay is the idea that it is not equal to be gay that in fact it is like a pitiable second-class status like oh poor her she

On choosing to be gay PIPE...

 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom,