Anthony Marra

When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

American Writer

Kresley Cole

If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.

American Novelist

Michael Ian Black

Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

American Comedian

Frankie Boyle

Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.

Scottish Comedian

Simone Weil

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

French Philosopher

Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

English Scientist

Norman Davies

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

British Historian

Alistair Horne

Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.

Saul David

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

American First Lady

Expresses severe lack of empathy, often indicating cruelty or coldness.

Emotional Harshness

Used metaphorically to describe severe weather or unforgiving natural conditions that cause suffering.

Descriptive Imagery

Highlights an authoritative or dominant figure's indifference to suffering.

Powerful Disregard

Indicates a lack of emotional engagement with something typically warranting a response.

Impersonal Nature

Often used in tough or competitive environments where empathy is scarce or non-existent.

Confrontational Context

Challenges the notion that one should always show empathy, especially reflecting realist perspectives.

Challenging Perceptions

 and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart.

Is the world getting...

 A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

Pitiless