Feeling Sorry For Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sorry, Past, People

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Sorry, Cancer

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Sorry

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• My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. “I only have—” “Two days.” He squeezed my hand. “So what? You can spend them feeling sorry for yourself, or you can let me help make them the best two days of your life, and my afterlife. So what’s it gonna be?” I stared into his eyes, like I’d never seen him before. And I hadn’t—not like this. But he’d obviously seen me, better than anyone else ever had. “Well?” Tod watched me, his hand still warm in mine. In answer, I leaned forward and kissed him again.

  Rachel Vincent

  Sorry, Eye, Hands

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.244, Harlequin

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