Annoying Quote by Anne Lamott

Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more…

— Kevin Malarkey

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of…

— Alain de Botton

“A general principle of human behavior is that it’s easier for us to see something negative in other people than in ourselves. This mental…

— Gary Small

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

— Dorothy Rowe

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not…

— Fannie Hurst

“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil…

— Alain de Botton

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other…

— Tom Robbins

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her.…

— Nhat Hanh

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

— Thomas a Kempis

It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone…

— Sharon Salzberg

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

— Isabel Burton

“Psychology: “Sympathy the human species universally craves. The child eagerly displays his injury; or even inflicts a cut or bruise in order to reap…

— Dale Carnegie