Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on…

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys…

— Hanna Rosin

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

— Christopher Hitchens

“She sometimes wondered what her twenty-two-year-old self would think of today's Emma Mayhew. Would she consider her self-centered? Compromised? A bourgeois sell-out, with her…

— David Nicholls

“The problem is that kind of thinking means you’re going to punish yourself forever. You think you don’t deserve happiness or love or acceptance,…

— Genevieve Novak

“Great, I couldn’t even have a self-pitying moment without his awesomeness ruining it and making me feel guilty.”

— Natalie Carlisle

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses…

— Teresa of Avila

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

— Bill Bailey

You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a…

— Hal Porter

“Both are manifestations of pride. Boasting is the response of pride to success. Self-pity is the response of pride to suffering. Boasting says, “I…

— John Piper

“It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own…

— Colleen Truscott Fry

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“But there was a cost to that surcease from pain, Fool. When you dull pain and hide it from yourself…” My words trickled away.…

— Robin Hobb

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

— Mike White