Mariella Frostrup Quotes

A man's ego is just as fragile as a woman's heart

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

I am human and I am very sensitive, so of course it hurts when there is someone out there criticizing you. You work to do your best, you work to receive appreciation. It definitely hurts me lesser today because with time and experience I have learned to reduce the negativity and truly recognize the positivity in life which is so much more.

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

self-pity is better than none.

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.