Self-pity Quotes

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. (Patty Duke)
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. View quote
Maya Angelou
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. View quote
Helen Keller
All pity is self-pity. View quote
W. H. Auden
Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. View quote
E. M. Forster
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. View quote
Camille Paglia
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. View quote
Nick Hornby
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. View quote
Charlaine Harris
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing. View quote
Gary Paulsen
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. (Anne Roiphe)
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it. View quote
Mike Mills
One of the things that was introduced to me at an early stage in life was to try to make stuff happen. But nothing ever worked that way for me. What I learned on my own was that to try and play God with your life will wreck your brain and your nervous system, and mess up your natural direction in the course that's already there...But look, I just don't want to read about me being made into a basket case because of my work. It's self-pity that I hate. I mean, it comes with the territory. An actor with any conviction goes the extra mile. View quote
River Phoenix
Thanks to God's direct intervention, I had risen phoenixlike from the ashes of self-pity and despair, and though my wounds were still raw, I trusted that in time they, too, would heal. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. View quote
Michael Pollan
Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. View quote
Graham Greene
Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective. View quote
Edmund Cooper
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
if the subject of art will be a broken jug a small broken soul with a great self-pity what will remain of us will be like tears of lovers in a small dirty hotel when wallpapers dawn. (Zbigniew Herbert)
Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think! View quote
Emil Cioran
You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity. View quote
Scott Lynch
...it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind...through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences: A. It's your life + social commentary. B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. C. No one ever said that life was fair. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. View quote
André Maurois