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
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You fall but get back up because if you stay down who's going to pick you up? — Taylor Thompson Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Look down to me, you will se a fool. Look up to heaven, you will see God. Look straight to me, you… — Binh Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Riley was the exception to the feast of cholesterol. For him it was dry toast, black coffee and lashings of self pity.” — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just need a day off from reality, just a day without people's problems & all the bullshit running through my mind.! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Although they understand their position as sons and daughters of God, they are tied up in knots, bound by a terrible feeling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My calculations about how to stay alive and sane on this particular planet have clearly been at fault. Lots of people are… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My heart has been broken, shattered and abused, but I don't wallow in self pity about It. I know I have been… — Blondie Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn’t something Bess would normally succumb to,… — Inger Iversen 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
“When one experiences a profound setback in the course of an enviable life, one has a variety of options. Spurred by shame,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all." I thought… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I am not here to serve myself. I am not here to be lauded, petted, admired or ‘affirmed.’ I am here to… — Jennie Chancey Copy Share Image
No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Valentines Day is a day we celebrate real love. A love so strong that two hearts become one. Yeah, when you're happy,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
