Quotes About Self-pity

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to diner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity.

The very language we use when we think about self-pity betrays the deep abhorrence in which we hold it: self-pity is feeling sorry for yourself, self-pity is thumb-sucking, self-pity is boo hoo poor me, self-pity is the condition in which those feeling sorry for themselves indulge, or even wallow. Self-pity remains both the most common and universally reviled of our character defects, its pestilential destructiveness accepted as given.

No one could have missed the reservoir of self-pity, the quickness to blame, the narrowing of the eyes, as if in wildlife documentary, when things did not go his [Clinton] way. That famous tendency of the candidate to take a less than forthcoming approach to embarrassing questions that had already been well documented.

Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality. One must have courage to accept oneself with pride & strive to present best of himself.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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

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

Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or humbly value life.

Odio quelli che vanno in giro con l'aria da martire, proprio come detesto l'autocommiserazione. È causa di troppa infelicità.

I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldn't help but fall prey to the canned self-pity Christmas prescribes.

Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view.

Self-pity is a worse adversary than ignorance.

victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

Melancholy can be seductive when it's twined with self-pity.

envy is second only to self-pity as the most dangerous of all emotions.

She'd always chosen not to be victimized, to resist and fight back, to hold on to hope and dignity and faith in the future. But victimhood was seductive, a release from the responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

A child can love a mother who has no capacity to love him in return, but in time, he realizes that he is pouring his affection not on fertile ground but on rock, where nothing can be grown. A child might then spend a life defined by settled anger or by self-pity. If the mother is not a monster, if she is instead emotionally disconnected and self-absorbed, and if she

The Vine had no jukebox, but a real stereo continually playing tunes of alcoholic self-pity and sentimental divorce.

Self-pity makes tyrants, it's the defining characteristic of brutal regimes

But in those final seconds, a catalogue of emotion found his eyes. There was dismay. Self-pity. Terror. An abandonment so total it took thirty years off his life and turned him into a ten-year-old before her eyes.