Quotes About Self-pity

Establishing healthy habits - like eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, and participating in regular exercise - can also go a long way to improving how you feel. Similarly, getting rid of destructive mental habits, like engaging in self-pity or ruminating on the past, can also do wonders for your emotional well-being.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

Cada vez que le ocurría apiadarse y avergonzarse de sí mismo hasta el extremo de que se le llenaran los ojos de lágrimas, se sentía luego deprimido y asqueado. Nunca había sido un sentimental propenso a exhibir sus emociones, siempre había sabido disimular los tumultos que agitaban sus sentimientos tras una máscara de perfecta serenidad

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully.

Self-pity shortens your life.

We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.

The coronavirus is God's call to his people to overcome self-pity and fear, and with courageous joy, to do the good works of love that glorify God.

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

I was especially struck by their sense of humor; so at odds with any self-pity -- the ability to step back and laugh at oneself, however wryly.

Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for the world and self-pity.

One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.

In his prime the Hollywood screenwriter was one of the tragic figures of our age, evoking the special anguish that arises from feeling sorry for oneself while making large amounts of money.

But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.

Whoever writes about his childhood must beware of exaggeration and self-pity. I do not want to claim that I was a martyr or that Crossgates was a sort of Dotheboys Hall. But I should be falsifying my own memories if I did not record that they are largely memories of disgust.

Man's tendency is to hide from his sin, seeking refuge in the darkness. There he indulges in self-pity, denial, self-righteousness, blaming, and hatred. But I am the Light of the world, and My illumination decimates the darkness. Come close to Me and let My Light envelop you, driving out darkness and permeating you with Peace.

Hope in Me, and you will be protected from depression and self-pity. Hope is like a golden cord connecting you to heaven. The more you cling to this cord, the more I bear the weight of your burdens; thus, you are lightened. Heaviness is not of My kingdom. Cling to hope, and My rays of Light will reach you through the darkness.

You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity.

You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity.

But every now and then, just weighing in is what it must come down to, and without any self-exculpation or self-pity.

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

The criminal resembles the artist in his pretension, his incompetence, and his self-pity.