Quotes tagged ‘Self-Pity’

“Would you stop feeling sorry for yourself? It's bad for your complexion.”

— John Hughes, Randy, Liane Curtis, imdb.com

“You want me to complain? Alright then, Fuck this. Fuck you; fuck all of you and your sniveling self-pity, and fuck all your lousy parents. Fuck my lousy parents while were at it. Fuck my selfish, bohemian sister and her fucking bliss. Fuck my legless grandmother. Fuck my dead husband, and my lousy c…”

— Kate Robin, Ruth Fisher, Frances Conroy, imdb.com

“I began to suspect that there was something wrong with the treatment I was getting from the human race.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“My life is more difficult than anyone else's on the planet, and yes I'm including starving children, so don't ask!”

— Holly Schlesinger, Gene Belcher, Eugene Mirman, imdb.com

“Jerry, kill me, kill me now. I'm begging you. Let's just get it over with. Be a pal. Just take the pillow and put it over my face.”

— Larry Charles, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Sometimes people hurt more than they can handle… And sometimes they don’t know how to ask for help. They’re so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them.”

— Rebecca Donovan, amazon.com

“You were mine to adore, I was yours to regret.”

— Neck Deep, open.spotify.com

“To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.”

— Iain Banks, amazon.com

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“Someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”

— D. H. Lawrence, amazon.com

“You think you're falling behind because you didn't get the job you want. You feel insecure because your friends are leveling up. You blame yourself because you course the wrong course in college. You wish your parents were wealthy so they could provide you a better life. You ask what's wrong with yo…”

— M.A. Buendía HD, facebook.com

“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.”

— Maggie Nelson, amazon.com

“Self-pity doesn’t get you anywhere.”

— Nisha Kumar, thoughtcatalog.com

“4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me—I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, star…”

— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jim Carey, The Grinch, Jim Carrey, imdb.com

“I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this—caring for this boy—as opposed to some other way? I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live foreve…”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.”

— Matt Groening, Homer Simpson, amazon.com

“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.”

— Randy Pausch, amazon.com

“Stop wallowing and remember: the more decisions you make, the more your life is your own.”

— Alina Simone, amazon.com