Top 1200 Self-Pity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.

Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

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

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.

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

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

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

Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

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

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

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

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

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

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ?nd no meaning.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

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

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

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

I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

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

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

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

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.

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

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.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.