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  • If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

    Depression   Hurt   Cheer  
  • If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

    Self   Trying   Pity  
  • I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

    Sorry   Block   Our World  
    "Murder International: Including So Many Steps to Death Death Comes as the End Evil Under the Sun".
  • Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

  • Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

  • Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

    Faith   Religious   Pain  
  • Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

  • Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

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

    Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam
  • When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

    Men   Self   Agony  
    Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    Karma   Yoga   Indulge In  
  • Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

    Charlaine Harris (2016). “Dead Over Heels”, p.104, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
  • Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

    Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”
  • Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

    Kindness   Reality   Men  
  • Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

    Self   Doe   Disease  
  • For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

    Self   People   Giving  
    "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.
  • Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

    Self   Envy   Energy  
  • They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

    Fighting   Self   Sick  
    Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.146, Penguin
  • Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  • Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

    Suicide   Self   Sin  
    Charles J. Shields (2016). “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman”, p.193, Henry Holt and Company
  • What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

    Self   Humanity   Mind  
    Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.251
  • Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

    Self   Trying   Done  
    Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”
  • American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

    Sex   Self   Pie  
    "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.
  • Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

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

    Self   Devil   Purpose  
    Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.76, Discovery House
  • The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

  • Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

    Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor
  • What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

    Lying   Self   Ideas  
  • The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

    Hate   Yoga   Self  
  • Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

    Vanity   Self   Blame  
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