Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Never let a few flaws make you hate everything else about yourself. The people that love you won't care about them anyway. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Self Pity takes away the power to get out of predicaments. Don't pity yourself. Empower yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
While everyone else believes shes beautiful she sits in the background and cries, for no one in her life seems to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh I'm sorry I'm not perfect, I'm sorry I can't be what you want me to be, I'm sorry I have made… — Sheng Faltiquera Copy Share Image
People hate you for one of three reasons. They hate themselves, they want to be you, or they see you as a… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“I have a black-belt in self-pity. I was an expert in the field. Still am. It’s a skill you never forget.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia 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
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
“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
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
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
You can sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can GET UP and try to better yourself. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity — Aleksandar Hemon 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
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” — Helen Keller 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
The fear of failure & the fear of disappointment can really hurt ones personality and ruin his or her life in general.… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“While in Aspen, I was on a panel one evening with Andre Dubus III, who spoke of what happens when a memoir… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Look, I'm glad you're so flush with cash all of a sudden that you can go around buying houses for people who… — Shelby Van Pelt Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said… — Stephen Fry 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 when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and… — Barbara Elsborg 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,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
You may look in the mirror and feel like you are not as good but someone on this Earth is waiting for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and… — Kevin Malarkey Copy Share Image
“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“We are all bruised, crushed, or broken at some point, if not yesterday or today then perhaps tomorrow but we pick ourselves… — Ellie Ryder Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
