(332 quotes found)
“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
William Butler Yeats
“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
John W. Gardner
“Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night and the winter's snow,In the naked and outcast, seek Love there!”
William Blake
“It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.”
Manly Hall
“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.”
Millicent Fenwick
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
Andre Maurois
“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity”
Stephen Vincent Benet
“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!”
Leon Trotsky
