Quotes About Self-pity

I bet you never had to live through really tough times." "Yes, I did," he says. Well, I'm not going to ask what he considers tough times. There are those who already feel sorry for themselves when they haven't had a hot meal by three in the afternoon.

Fatigue, swollen ankles, the midwife said. The worst discomforts of pregnancy. I wrote those down. But she's wrong: self-pity. Strange dreams, she said. No dreams.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

At some point you have to park your past and put yellow caution tape around it so you don't keep going back to it. Because there's nothing like lounging around in your past and all that self-pity.

Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish.

If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

If you want to feel sorry for yourself," Mary continues, "then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

Acceptance is outcomes without attachments, guilt, shame, remorse, self pity, resentment, fear, anger, etc. These are the tools of the disease of addiction. To maintain Recovery One must maintain a state of Acceptance.

If every story someone tells you revolves around how great they are and how they're always the victim in situations they're most likely full of sh...

Self-pity oozed through my soul. I tried to relax and enjoy it.

Imagining yourself dead is the cheapest, sleaziest, most satisfying form of childish self-pity. How sad and remorseful and guilty all those people are, standing by your great bronze coffin.

It's so easy to park our minds in bad spots. But this is where pity parties are held, and we all know pity parties demand an abundance of high calorie delights. Pity parties are also a cruel way to entertain, for they leave behind a deeper emptiness than we started with.

Rage and grief, thwarted desire, lust, self-pity: these are emotions gods know well. But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.

she enjoyed reveling in her misery. She

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 dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair. (Can a reflection be a witness?)

life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Guilt can quickly turn into regret and self-pity. The only way out is through acceptance and forgiveness.