"What, therefore, is the cause of your condition? What lies at the root of your malaise (as the Latins call it)? What …"

"Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to t…"

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

"Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occas…"

"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and u…"

"You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship wi…"

"I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt s…"

"One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great drama…"

"Moreover, given the unpleasant option of having to associate with either the self-satisfied beautiful or the self-pit…"

"I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heave…"