Gena Showalter Quotes

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

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

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

I don't want anybody to feel sorry for me.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

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

Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

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