"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
Self-pity is an emotion in which one feels self-centered sorrow and pity toward the self regarding one's own internal and external experiences of suffering. Self-pity has also been defined as an emotion "directed towards others with the goal of attracting attention, empathy, or help"
"Moreover, given the unpleasant option of having to associate with either the self-satisfied beautiful or the self-pitying plain, hed choose the former every time because beauty could sometimes transcend smugness whereas self-pity just made ugliness all the more unattractive."
"I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed, "Roast fowl to him thats sated will seem less Upon the board than leaves of garden cress. While, in the sight of helpless poverty, Boiled turnip will a roasted pullet be."
"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 ones best."
"Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinkers attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think!"
"Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but thats a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage."
"I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."