“Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.”

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

“The policy of self-isolation and continuous silence are the greatest destroyers of marriage and relationship.”

“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”

“The antidote for self-pity and negative thinking is gratitude.”

“That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.”

“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”

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

“You can only grieve so much; after that it’s self pity.”

“Moreover, given the unpleasant option of having to associate with either the self-satisfied beautiful or the self-pitying plain, he'd choose the former every time because beauty could sometimes transcend smugness whereas self-pity just made ugliness all the more unattractive.”