Pity Party Quotes

“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“What a troublesome world this is, when one has the most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Don't feel pity for those who will feel disappointed because you have scored! You were trained not to entertain a pity party but to excel in a winning game!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.”
― Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“It's decided then. I'm just going to lie here and have a little pity party for myself because who spends the night of their eighteenth birthday alone in their bedroom playing Angry Birds on a phone where the settings are all in Arabic, wearing a heart-shaped locket their mom gave them? Oh yeah, that's right, someone with no life. And no prospect of ever getting one.”
― Mila Gray, Come Back to Me

“I rigorously lament all of the many things that I don’t have. But in this self-imposed and rather lively pity-party to which I’ve invited myself, what I forget are the resources I do have that equip me to obtain what I don’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He mentally went back to his pity-party, it would not be much of a party without him.”
― Reed S. Hansen, Ri Conquers the Multiverse