Pity quotes

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
- Napoleon Hill

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only because we are too exhausted to resist.
- Ivy Baker Priest

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

I'd rather have anybody's hate than their pity.
- S. E. Hinton

If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies — Oh ! what a pity about the money.
- French Proverb

A woman’s pity often opens the door to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
- Joyce Meyer

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.
- Barbara Walters

Pity without relief is like mustard without beef.
- English proverb

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity.
- Aleksandar Hemon

Her own misery filled her heart; there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
- George Eliot

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
- Mason Cooley

Soft pity enters an iron gate.
- William Shakespeare

Pity makes suffering contagious.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is always twinged with disgust.
- Daniel Quinn

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
- Og Guinness

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
- E. M. Forster

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
- Theodore Dreiser