“And in the sin of wanting always to be right, the punishment is knowing it isn't possible.” — Jennifer Clarvoe Copy Share Image
Beating yourself up about a mistake you made is only going to make you more inclined to do it again. Just accept… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.” — Catherine Robinson-Walker Copy Share Image
“People who play the victim role in their lives love to feel self-pity. They want you to think that what “happened” to… — Brooke Castillo Copy Share Image
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“You're having a large disappointment," she drawled, "with a side of rare pissed-offedness." I thought about lying outright. But as it was… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
Acceptance is outcomes without attachments, guilt, shame, remorse, self pity, resentment, fear, anger, etc. These are the tools of the disease of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality.… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
When you fall you can either get back up and continue on with your life or you can self pity yourself and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm going to Hell in a basket Weaved in from my sins, Like wicker With little Wiccan ties As if I'm a… — Matthew Little Copy Share Image
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Our problems that we created ourselves, are often not as great, as our problems that are created beyond our control. — John Reyes Copy Share Image
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
“I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be happy with myself. I worry that if I can't be happy with myself, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“Those who lack a central purpose in life fall prey to worries, fears, and petty troubles, and end up stuck in self-pity.… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I dont get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back. Im not… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
“Of course we lose them, everyone we try to hold on to, the fates disdain us, make us small, pathetic. When we… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
