Self Pity Quotes - Page 2

• God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

  Albert Camus

  God, Self, Despair

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Keys

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• Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

  Guy Finley

  Dark, Self, Defeat

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• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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• People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

  Barbara Walters

  Compassion, Race, Self

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

  Patty Duke

  Self, People, Unattractive

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sorry, Saws, Wild Things

  Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Self, Nostalgia

  Garrison Keillor (2014). “The Keillor Reader”, p.28, Penguin

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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Honesty, Men, Self

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

  Andre Maurois

  Self, Pity

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

  Anatole France

  Depression, Courage, Giving

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Inspirational, Self, Optimism

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

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Compassion, Self

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Woe, Fellowship, Taught

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author”, p.18

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• If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

  Julie Nixon Eisenhower

  Sorry, Hate, Self

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Charlaine Harris

  Self, Chocolate, Littles

  Charlaine Harris (2016). “Dead Over Heels”, p.104, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  Manly Hall

  Blessing, Self, Boredom

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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

  E. M. Forster

  Self, Smell, People

  "Commonplace Book". Book by E. M. Forster, 1985.

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• 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.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Self, Matter

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• Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

  Mary McCarthy

  Laughter, Self, Wind

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• 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.

  Agatha Christie

  Sorry, Block, Our World

  "Murder International: Including So Many Steps to Death Death Comes as the End Evil Under the Sun".

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• Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

  John W. Roper

  Giving

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