Self Pity Quotes - Page 8

• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

  Rick Yancey

  Hate, Grief, Self

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

  Renata Adler

  Sadness, Thinking, Self

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.53, New York Review of Books

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• The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

  Max Lucado

  Life, God, Christian

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Attitude, Reality, Emotional

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• Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Adversity

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• Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

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• I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Artist, Self

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sorry, Self, Daddy

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.172, Macmillan

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• I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.

  John Barth

  Sweet, Self, Play

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• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Luxury, Clothes

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• Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Opportunity, Self

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.22, Booklassic

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• The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Thinking, Self

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

  Iain Banks

  Children, Sorry, Thinking

  Iain Banks (1999). “A Song of Stone: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

  Mitch Albom

  Depression, Morning, Self

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

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• 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, Devil, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.76, Discovery House

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• I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Self

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• Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

  Susan Faludi

  Self, America, Promise

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

  James Fox

  Self, Giving, Thank God

  James Fox (2012). “White Mischief”, p.195, Random House

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• The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Yoga, Self

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• We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Indulge In

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• The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the towel altogether - they explore what didn't work and course-correct.

  Lauren Mackler

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.

  Kevin Malarkey

  Wall, Self, Focus

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• Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

  Anthony Powell

  Self, Giving, Understanding

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