Quotes About Self-pity

As many atheists have said better than me, the knowledge that we have only one life should make it all the more precious. The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Viver sozinho tem momentos de auto-comiseração e paranóia.

I began to feel a more general remorse – a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred – about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded – and how pitiful that was.

To be a stoic in an age of self-pity is to be judged standoffish; worse, unfeeling.

The root of failure is self-pity. It leads to assumption that our needs are not being met now and probably never will be.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

My father told us:The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its "problems" because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

He couldn't help wondering whether love could really consist of an unpleasant combination of obsession, self-pity, rivalry, lust and day-dreaming. These characteristics didn't seem to distinguish it from the rest of life, except by their intensity.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.