“Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in… — Joseph O'Neill 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
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
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
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
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
“It was comical to compare that to the reaction I'd had to losing Chloe. I'd essentially turned into a filthy hobo, not… — Christina Lauren 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 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
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
“Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from… — Jonathan Lethem 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
I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for… — Nathaniel Fick Copy Share Image
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy… — Joyce Meyer 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
