Best sellers Quote by V. S. Pritchett

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

— Lionel Shriver

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is…

— Nick Hornby

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

— Andre Maurois

I've always regarded self-pity as a wasted emotion.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

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

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

— Randy Pausch

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly…

— Paulo Coelho

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

— Rachel Cusk

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

— Rachel Cusk

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to…

— Martha Beck

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

— Mary Balogh

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

— Renata Adler