Time Quote by Natalie Carlisle

“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

“there is nothing worse than pity. It just makes you feel guiltier.”

— Ava Dellaira

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

— Victor Klemperer

“Self pity is a deep grieve.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.”

— Lish McBride

“I had become so distant from my true self that I was not even capable of self-pity.”

— Cezmi Ersöz

“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like…

— Barbara Elsborg

“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”

— Mary Balogh

“He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee.”

— David Lodge