Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

Goldman met him on the Detroit train platform, but she found herself "seized by terror and pity" at his gaunt appearance.

Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good.

His heart beating rapidly, fear shadowed by pity within him, he walked over to that bright profusion of flowers.

Moved by pity, I squat to look.

How could you feel deep friendship, or love untouched by pity, except for an equal?

He watched her go, and a pleasurable pain filled him, a sense of triumph and easy power, followed immediately by acute pity.

Tannier replies that it is gone, replaced by pity.

"Because they need you," he answered, the words completely unsoftened by pity.

Would he have felt any less crippled by pity and horror than Evan did?