Top 100 Feel Sorry For Quotes
#1. There will always be a moment to feel sorry for the mistakes, but indeed it is not today.
M.F. Moonzajer
#2. Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Richard L. Evans
#3. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do.
And then I don't.
I do.
And then I don't.
E. Lockhart
#4. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#5. I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.
Audrey Niffenegger
#6. I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
Bill Bailey
#7. [On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.
Pat Nixon
#8. That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
Bruce Forsyth
#9. Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia." He
James S.A. Corey
#10. It's very liberating; I feel great. Long hair is so fucking foolish, I feel sorry for guys who have it," he said, expressing the total conviction one finds in those who have only recently been converted.
Hope Jahren
#11. The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it ... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'
Barbara Corcoran
#12. If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.
Dossie Easton
#13. When I was really low, when it was all I could do not to feel sorry for myself, I played that game too. I knew I could never win, but some days, the dark days, the allure of playing 'if only' was too strong to resist.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#14. I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
Antony Sher
#15. I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
Dane Cook
#16. I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.
John Thaw
#17. People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.
Frederick Lenz
#18. My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.
Gina Torres
#19. I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.
Anonymous
#20. Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.
Rick Yancey
#21. I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.
George Carlin
#22. Sometimes I really feel sorry for Mel - Her life would've been so much better if she'd fallen in love with someone normal. Instead she fell in love with me and had been paying for the mistake ever since.
Mike Gayle
#23. We should celebrate. We each married a sadistic killer." His head tilted toward Isa as we drank our coffee. "I almost feel sorry for the poor bastard she ends up with.
Scarlett Dawn
#24. When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.
Boris Gelfand
#25. I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
Ian McKellen
#27. I run for miles but don't count them, passing dark house after dark house. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping. I
Jennifer Niven
#28. I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
John Barrowman
#29. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.
Mira Grant
#30. Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's unnecessary to say "thank you"; Never feel bad to admit "I am wrong"! That's a good tactics is communication!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. If you can't see the beauty in the dirt then I feel sorry for you. And if you can't see why these streets are special, then just go home already.
Jami Attenberg
#32. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#33. I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
Scott Corbett
#34. There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.
Eoin Colfer
#35. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Angela Merkel
#36. I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
Barry Humphries
#37. I feel sorry for the man who marries you ... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey
#38. I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could almost have written a poem.
Matt Haig
#39. 'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.
NeNe Leakes
#40. She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.
Ally Carter
#41. Here's my struggle-here's my story. Don't feel sorry for me. Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't change a thing.
Jean Sharon Abbott
#42. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
Lois Lowry
#43. Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?
Maira Kalman
#44. I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.
Magnus Carlsen
#45. I feel sorry for you, and I'm going to be your friend."
"I don't want to be your friend," Cath said as sternly as she could. "I like that we're not friends."
"Me, too. I'm sorry you ruined it by being so pathetic.
Rainbow Rowell
#46. You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
(after not being picked starting goalie)
Jens Lehmann
#47. When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!
Tom Leykis
#48. A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
Mason Cooley
#49. Don't feel sorry for Ed Gourd Graves. Take a broad general view of things and realize that everybody loses everything, and that no man's loneliness can trump another's.
Mike Sauve
#50. My sister has an incredible body. I feel sorry for anyone who would judge her, because she's one sexy lady ... It's disgusting that people would say those things.
Ashlee Simpson
#51. Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.
Gideon Raff
#52. I feel very sorry for myself - that is what grief is.
William Boyd
#53. I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything.
Sarah Ockler
#54. I feel sorry ... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.
Beth Ditto
#55. When you see a horse that's troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn't mean that you wouldn't still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.
Buck Brannaman
#56. AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
Ryan White
#57. Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.
Michael Flatley
#58. Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.
Gregory David Roberts
#59. Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.
Natalie Goldberg
#60. I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.
Terry Fox
#61. I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much
so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
Kate Chopin
#62. A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because I see that you could be me and I could be you'.
Shannon Moroney
#63. I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!'
'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too!
Trisha Ashley
#64. That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.
Amanda Schull
#65. I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-
Frank Sinatra
#66. Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time ...
Ellen DeGeneres
#67. You'll make a sucky father someday," I tell him with a smile. "I feel sorry for the kid that doesn't get to burst into light to get out of your house."
He chokes out a laugh. "Is it my sarcasm?"
"Definitely. And that obnoxious accent.
Suzanne Young
#68. As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.
Henry Rollins
#69. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?"
"I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes."
"God help me," he said, half under his breath.
Melina Marchetta
#70. You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.
Frederick Lenz
#71. I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the people who pay $27 million for an 8,000-square-foot condo in Manhattan. So inflation comes in places.
Charlie Munger
#72. Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
Arthur Ashe
#73. Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow
#74. There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.
Margaret Atwood
#75. Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
Billy Connolly
#76. I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.
Ricky Gervais
#77. Baby, I'm so sorry. You know I wouldn't feel right, if I ran away from my responsibilities. I'd have to live with that decision for the rest of my life. My being in the war could save lives. My running away will only save mine. It's a selfish decision to make. I'll come back to you. I promise.
Jason Medina
#78. I feel sorry for anybody who would let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.
- Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer
Deborah Wiles
#79. When life hits you down, you have a choice make it- You either stay down and feel sorry for yourself or get up and believe in your self.
Tilicia Haridat
#80. My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.
Sigmund Freud
#81. Most of the time when we tell our children how to live their lives, it's because we don't respect them. We feel sorry for them, and we try to do for them what they should do for themselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#82. To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
#83. Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.
Sue Townsend
#84. Love is based on respect. Fear doesn't respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don't respect you. You cannot make your own choices.
Miguel Ruiz
#85. No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.
Irwin Shaw
#86. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
#87. All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.
Jennifer Lopez
#88. I feel sorry for many politicians ... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
Alexei Sayle
#89. And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.
Gillian Flynn
#90. You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.
M T Anderson
#91. Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern.
Joan Didion
#93. I used to feel sorry for myself, then I discovered cocktails. If life has taught me anything, it's that there's nothing a stiff drink can't fix.
K.M. Morgan
#94. I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#95. Never apologize for saying what/how you feel. Cuz' that's like saying, "Sorry for being real".
Scott Ginsberg
#96. I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
Zakk Wylde
#97. Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.
Carlos Castaneda
#98. On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.
Dan J. Marlowe
#99. I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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