I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.


Randy Pausch

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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior.
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
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Self-pity is the last word for Kendall. The miracle with babies is that they can overcome anything.
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
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Don't wallow in your problem, get up and move on.
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Depression is unfocused self-pity.
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
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Self pity is a deep grieve.
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Tutt’al più commuoversi sugli altri,mai su se stesso.
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Self-pity is the real fool's gold.
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I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
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They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.
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It doesn't help to wallow in self-pity. We're trying.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
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Soft pity enters an iron gate.
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
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Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.
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She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe
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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead
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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
JERRY LEWIS
That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity;And pity 't is 't is true.
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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
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Not once, during this whole thing, did he ever seek pity. That just isn't who Bailey is.
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When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
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Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity...
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
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It's a pity because it really looked like he was going to deliver.
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!...
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.
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I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cr...
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas...
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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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RANDY NEWMAN
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to pla...
RANDY NEWMAN
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
RANDY NEWMAN
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 year...
RANDY NEWMAN
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand wha...
RANDY NEWMAN
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A...
RANDY NEWMAN
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yours...
RANDY NEWMAN
It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
RANDY NEWMAN
I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song...
RANDY NEWMAN
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself tal...
RANDY NEWMAN
But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not ...
RANDY NEWMAN
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
RANDY NEWMAN
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
RANDY NEWMAN
I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
RANDY NEWMAN
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
RANDY NEWMAN
If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you...
RANDY NEWMAN
I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in...
RANDY NEWMAN
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l...
RANDY NEWMAN
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics abou...
RANDY NEWMAN
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
RANDY NEWMAN
The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and o...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woma...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our b...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the fed...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosit...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER