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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardner
A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide.
Steve Maraboli
There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on.
Dr Megan Reik
Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne
I never saw a wild thingsorry for itself;A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville