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• For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

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• Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

  Aidan Chambers

  Self, Doe, Disease

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

  Carl Orr

  Self, Musician, Helping

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• The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

  James Stewart

  Christian, Attitude, Opportunity

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• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Self, Perspective, Devil

  "Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers".

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

  Dorothy West

  Self, Identity, Resistance

  Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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• You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Karma, Self

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• In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

  Julian Barnes

  Ambition, Reality, Self

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• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Self, Long

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• Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

  Charles J. Shields

  Suicide, Self, Sin

  Charles J. Shields (2016). “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman”, p.193, Henry Holt and Company

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• There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Self, Rooms

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

  Richard Kadrey

  Song, Hate, Self

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• Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Self, Hatred

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• The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

  David S. Baxter

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Self, Tire

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• Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

  Michael Pollan

  Pain, Regret, Self

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

  Paul Monette

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Oxygen

  Paul Monette (2014). “Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story”, p.99, Open Road Media

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• What you are comes to you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Law Of Attraction

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• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Contradiction, Victim

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Self Esteem, Narcotics, Destructive

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• Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

  Jerry Fodor

  Self, Onions, Pity

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Self, Pie

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

  Naomi Campbell

  Fall, Self, Careers

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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