Mother Quote by Garrison Keillor

I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well…

— Garrison Keillor

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as…

— Garrison Keillor

“Why wallow in a puddle of self pity when there's a sea of self acceptance and self realisation waiting for you?”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

— Ivy Baker Priest

“Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.”

— David Mitchell

All self-importance is a form of self-pity in disguise.

— Deepak Chopra

Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t…

— Joan Didion

My name is Nwori Joshua and I am the world's most sorrowful young man on earth and the world's biggest Jerk. I sought for…

— Nwori Joshua

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

— Willa Gibbs

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and…

— Oswald Chambers

“Self-pity was like wearing a wool jacket in the sweltering heat, and I wanted it gone.”

— Wendy Higgins

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't…

— Mitch Albom