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Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am ... ' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
Thus the engine of self-pity began to turn.
I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness.
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
I step back,
hating pity,
having learned
from Mother that
the pity giver
feels better,
never the pity receiver.
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.
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
Self-loathing is hell.
There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.
If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.
When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems and that's all what we love of talking about. We don't see the good things in our lives.
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy.
In a state of self-pity, one may retreat from the world in which one has been blessed to live.
Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.
He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.
No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Self pity is the glue that binds you to your past...
Self-pity leads to continuing to love the sin so it still has power over you, but hating yourself. Real repentance is when you say, "What has this sin done to God? What has it cost God? What does God feel about it?
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.
Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles' heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.
Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment.
losing it on the world. But even if the
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.
Self-pity isn't helpful, kid. It isn't worthy of you.
Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.
You hate most in others what you hate most in yourself
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and
Self-pity makes people callous.
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.
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.
Nothing is a blinding as neurotic self-pity. We walk around in a fog.
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.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.
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.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .
Pity is a useless emotion
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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.
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.
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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.
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
You love yourself and you are happy, and what you perceive as self-loathing and misery are really outside of you.
I pity for those that suffer and humiliate themselves for the approval of others because they are truly stupid.
unselfing themselves
Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.
When you have discovered disappointment as the guide to yourself, you will be eager to learn how much you are disappointed about yourself: about
Shame can be self-indulgence too.
unconscious self-love
She found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last deceiving philter of the desperate.
How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself.
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.
No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You
A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.
Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
self-pity was like quicksand. Dip one toe in and it slowly sucked in the rest of you, until you were drowning in gloom.
Self-seeking is self-destruction
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
We are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity - we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the abstract function of pity.
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to ... You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it
Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.
Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn.
Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
I know what it's like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that.
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.
Self-pity oozed through my soul. I tried to relax and enjoy it.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.