Honore de Balzac Quotes

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

self-pity is better than none.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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

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

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

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

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.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

People make me out to be this super strong woman, but I have my tough days just like anyone else.

I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

I can't feel sorry for myself.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.