Quote by Henry N. Beard

“Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.”

— Victor Klemperer

“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.”

— Cathy Maxwell

“I fucking hated pity. It was a wasted emotion.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“Sometimes I go about pitying myself. And all the while I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”

— The Lakota Sioux

“self-pity was like quicksand. Dip one toe in and it slowly sucked in the rest of you, until you were drowning in gloom.”

— Dale Mayer

“It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!”

— Lewis Carroll

“No need to waste the foolish tear, Or heave the windy sigh: The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had…

— Oscar Wilde

“Great, I couldn’t even have a self-pitying moment without his awesomeness ruining it and making me feel guilty.”

— Natalie Carlisle

“The tears that had been threatening to overflow finally did, coursing down my cheeks. I wanted to run after him, to take back what…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I hadn't wanted to shoot him. I was doing whatever I could think of to get him to leave. It had worked. Every was…

— Megan Crewe

“It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But…

— Jacqueline Carey

“She hadn’t thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood.…

— Nora Roberts