Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

[On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Self-pity is an emotion that is reserved for quitters.