Self Pity – Quotes

I let myself feel

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

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. Ezra Taft Benson

Pity is one of

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

There is nothing sadder

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. … Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas. Erma Bombeck

Self-pity is… a sinkhole

Self-pity is… a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. Elisabeth Elliot

You create a good

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

I let myself feel

Selfishness is one of

Pity is one of

There is nothing sadder

Self-pity is… a sinkhole

You create a good

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity

Self-pity is an acid

Self-pity? I see no

We must bring light