Feeling Sorry Quotes - Page 3

• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Friendship, Sorry, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

  John H. Groberg

  Sorry, Feelings, Selfishness

  John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sorry, Party, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.54, Macmillan

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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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• The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

  William Goldman

  Morning, Sorry, Feelings

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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• 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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• Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sorry, Feelings, Energy

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• Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sorry, Gone, Feels

  Arthur Ashe's message to his daughter Camera, as quoted in Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad "Days of Grace: A Memoir" (p. 341), May 1, 1994.

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• I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Strong, Sorry, War

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  Patricia Heaton

  Sorry, Feelings, Helping

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• I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

  Erma Bombeck

  Cute, Sorry, College

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.291, Open Road Media

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• Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

  Henry Fielding

  Sorry, Men, Evil

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• Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sorry, Adversity

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• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  R. Kelly

  Hater, Sorry, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Humility, Buddhism

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• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  Karen Armstrong

  Sorry, Mean, Compassion

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• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

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• When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

  Tony Dungy

  Sorry, Nfl, Complaining

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• I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

  Matt Groening

  Sorry, Party, People

  "The Creative Gang Behind The Simpsons Movie Speak!". Interview With B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Sorry, Buddhism

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• Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sorry, Feelings, Politics

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• Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

  Conor McGregor

  Sorry, Mma, Worry

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• If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

  John Cheever

  Sorry, Fog, Essence

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Sorry, Mistake

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