“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
You may look in the mirror and feel like you are not as good but someone on this Earth is waiting for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are all bruised, crushed, or broken at some point, if not yesterday or today then perhaps tomorrow but we pick ourselves… — Ellie Ryder Copy Share Image
I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and… — Kevin Malarkey Copy Share Image
“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as good as my brother/sister.'… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Establishing healthy habits - like eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, and participating in regular exercise - can also go… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“But, see, that kind of thinking only led to self-pity and that might be the quality I hated most in people. That… — Callie Harper Copy Share Image
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel… — Julie Nixon Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If only he would not pity us so much, Weaken our fate, relieve us ofwoe both great And small, a constant fellow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
You may look at yourself in the mirror and see negatives, everyone does, but if you take time to look at all… — Grace Davies Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
