Complaints Quote by Mariane Pearl

Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving…

— Henri Nouwen

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

— William Cowper

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

— Samuel Johnson

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