Wallow In Self Pity Quotes

#1. Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.

Kafka Asagiri

#2. If you want to wallow in self pity, then do so. Just admit that you are where you want to be. Don't be blaming everyone else for you being there because you are tough enough to crawl out of it.

Carolyn Brown

#3. If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.

Mary Balogh

#4. I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

Naomi Campbell

#5. Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own - "
"That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Every time we allow our mind to harbour a grudge, nurse a grievance, entertain an impure fantasy, or wallow in self-pity, we are sowing to the flesh.

John R.W. Stott

#7. When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

Maeve Binchy

#8. In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

Howard Schultz

#9. Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Lee H. Hamilton

#10. You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die ... I just don't want to exist.

Rebecca McNutt

#11. With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#12. Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Thomas Traherne

#14. If you say you have apple pie I might have to marry you.

Dominique Eastwick

#15. If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.

Elena Ferrante

#16. Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Marie Corelli

#17. Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

Guy Finley

#18. Pity party over?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Good. Not good to wallow for too long. It's bad for the complextion.

Cynthia Hand

#19. Life as a whole is not happy. Only moments. This is my moment. It will pass.

Margaret George

#20. Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.

Sandy Blair

#21. I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

Jess Walter

#22. I know I need to face the facts, and remain strong to extricate myself from this hideous situation, but not yet. I figure I'm owed at least one day to indulge my self-pity. One day to wallow in despair. To give into the soul-crunching heart-stomping pain ripping me to shreds on the inside.

Siobhan Davis

#23. On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it
that disgusts me

C.S. Lewis

#24. Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Oswald Chambers