Words matter. These are the best Self-Pity Quotes from famous people such as Eckhart Tolle, Maeve Binchy, Patty Duke, Lionel Shriver, Victoria Osteen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
When I was being brought up, we weren’t allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
Life’s most underrated emotion is self-pity.
If you’re not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don’t have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others.
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.’
If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
I don’t have time for self-pity. I don’t see the point in dwelling on the past.
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.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Feeling sad or lonely isn’t a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you’ll cross the line into self-pity.
