self-pity is better than none.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

— Og Mandino

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

— Oscar Wilde

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no…

— Ezra Pound

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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

— Willa Gibbs

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

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

“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

“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