““You needed a bath,“ Jean interrupted. “You were covered in self-pity.“”

“When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.”

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”

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

“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”

“Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.”

“Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.”

“All pity is self-pity.”

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

“Boy," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest.”