When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel… — Julie Nixon Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I choose¦to live by choice, not by chance. To make changes, not excuses. To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not… — Babloo 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
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. — Moss Hart 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
You may look at yourself in the mirror and see negatives, everyone does, but if you take time to look at all… — Grace Davies 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
Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior. — Anil Sinha 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
Somebody, somewhere right now is struggling to live for just one more day and you're here strong and healthy, yet thinking yourself… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply… — Emma Paul 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
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
