Storm Jameson Quotes

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

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

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Unhappiness was my god.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

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

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

Unhappy is a nice word.

Depression is rage spread thin.