A Quote by Louisa May Alcott

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

Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott
American - Novelist
November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888

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

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Dalton Trumbo

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

Leonardo da Vinci

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

D. H. Lawrence

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Oscar Levant

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Tom Robbins

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Elize Du Toit

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

A. S. Byatt

I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.

Aileen Lee

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

Patty Duke

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.

Tom Robbins

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

Alexander McCall Smith

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.