Always remember that no matter how useless you feel, you are someones reason to smile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I sighed, because that's what unrequited love made you do. Sigh with self-pity.” — Sariah Wilson Copy Share Image
...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah - — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No matter how ugly you think you are, that special person that loves you believes you are the most beautiful and irresistible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consciously giving yourself a break and not falling into the trap of self-denigration will allow you to save your energy for the… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Youre only what you tell yourself you are. And lying to yourself can only get you so far. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wallowing in self-pity hurts no one except you. Boss up and find a way to get going again.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
During a set back, don't sit back in self pity instead tell your heart to beat again! Nothing that happens to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
“Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed… — Francis de Sale Copy Share Image
“When we cry for people we’ve lost, it’s not out of sympathy, because of course we know that they’re free from pain… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
Don't compare yourself to other people. It won't help. You'll only find what you expect to find. If you think you're weak,… — Samantha Skye Copy Share Image
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Understand that this is how it works with people like me. Self-pity is the sun around which we orbit, the great gravitational… — Elizabeth Little Copy Share Image
“Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.” — C.J. Duggan Copy Share Image
Nobody can beat you up, as much as you can beat yourself up within your own mind. — Shennon Fabiano Copy Share Image
“I had become so distant from my true self that I was not even capable of self-pity.” — Cezmi Ersöz Copy Share Image
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