Anne Roiphe Quotes

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Self-pity shortens your life.

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

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

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

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.

self-pity is better than none.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

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

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.