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“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”
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American actress 1946–2016Related quotes
"Interlude: West's Disease", p. 243
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”
Nick Drake (poet)
(1961) British writer
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The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.
“The antidote for self-pity and negative thinking is gratitude.”
Jay Samit
(1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
“That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.”
Christopher Hitchens
(1949–2011) British American author and journalist
"Appointment in Sarajevo" (1992).
1990s, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)
“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”
Robert A. Heinlein
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Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)
“Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?”
Stephen King
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The Shining
Source: The Shining
“You can only grieve so much; after that it’s self pity.”
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 188)