Self Pity Quotes

241 Self Pity quotes by 185 unique authors

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. — Elisabeth Elliot
Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts. — Oscar Levant
Self-pity is the simplest luxury. — Rita Mae Brown
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. — Jacques Barzun
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. — John Keble
I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed,… — Garrison Keillor
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you… — Joni Mitchell
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can… — Moss Hart
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity… — James Fox
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford. — Stephen King
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no… — Frederick Lenz
The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the… — Lauren Mackler
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 we… — Kevin Malarkey
All pity is self-pity. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to… — Anatole France
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. — Patty Duke
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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