Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

— Dean Koontz

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't…

— Mitch Albom

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and…

— Oswald Chambers

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

— Willa Gibbs

Self-pity makes people callous.

— Mason Cooley

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

— Mason Cooley

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

— Mason Cooley

“Self-pity was like wearing a wool jacket in the sweltering heat, and I wanted it gone.”

— Wendy Higgins

Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t…

— Joan Didion

All self-importance is a form of self-pity in disguise.

— Deepak Chopra

“Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.”

— David Mitchell

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

— Ivy Baker Priest

“Wallowing in self-pity hurts no one except you. Boss up and find a way to get going again.”

— Germany Kent

“Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.”

— Shelley Terrell

My name is Nwori Joshua and I am the world's most sorrowful young man on earth and the world's biggest Jerk. I sought for…

— Nwori Joshua