Life Quote by Randy Pausch

Ive never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesnt matter. Life…

— Randy Pausch

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

— Randy Pausch

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

— V. S. Pritchett

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Self-compassion isn’t talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it’s often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the…

— Stephen Fry

“You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.”

— Robin Hobb

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

— Patty Duke

Crying is self-pity and self-pity gets you no where

— Douglas Kennedy

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” At the time Switters had disputed…

— Tom Robbins

“A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because I see…

— Shannon Moroney