Self-Pity

(638 votes)   Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(410 votes)   Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Sir Edwin Arnold
1832-1904, British Poet, Journalist

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(385 votes)   Soft pity enters an iron gate.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(366 votes)   Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(353 votes)   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

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(349 votes)   Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(348 votes)   If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(337 votes)   Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist

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(332 votes)   There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on.

Dr Megan Reik

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(327 votes)   Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(323 votes)   A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(314 votes)   God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(314 votes)   If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(311 votes)   To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel De Unamuno
1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer

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(308 votes)   Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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