Quotes About Self-pity

I think it was the down point in my career. I went to Shrewsbury on loan, I came back within a month and hadn't played a game - injured and feeling sorry for myself really.

Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

I'm a big comfort eater, so if I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll just stuff my face.

There had to be a point where I had to stop feeling sorry for myself.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

I look to TJ for inspiration in so many ways. One thing I learned from him is not to feel sorry for yourself.

Don't you want to be happy , Henry? asked my mother. You never smile. Smile and be happy. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, said my father. Be a man! Smile, Henry!

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh, the tediousness of it...Shouldn't he return to a life where he might slice his own importance, to where he might relinquish this overrated control over his own destiny and perhaps be subtracted from its determination altogether? He might even experience that greatest luxury of not noticing himself at all.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others, and simply follow Christ.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou

he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that turn into black gloom. He likes to think that they comes from elsewhere, episodes of bad weather that cross the sky and pass on. He prefers not to think they come from inside him and are his, part of him.

Despite Marijana's bracing presence, he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that turn into black gloom. He likes to think they come from elsewhere, episodes of bad weather that cross the sky and pass on. He prefers not to think they come from inside him and are his, part of him

Art has been for me, when I did not deceive myself, a meager compensation for what I desire. I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous, though tolerant, of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery. What am I? What do I seek?

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

In every twenty-four hours there is always one which is full of anguish and self-pity and confusion and the desire to see other faces, but an hour passes quickly enough.

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.