“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.”

“All pity is self-pity.”

“… Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.”

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

“Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.”

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

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

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

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

“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”