To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
~ Samuel Johnson
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
~ John W. Raper
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
~ Og Guinness
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
~ Cyril Connolly
He who complains sins.
~ Saint Francis De Sales
This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld
There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.
~ Linda Harry
Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.
~ Christian N. Barnard
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
~ Baruch Spinoza
When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The cure for grief is motion.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
~ D. H. Lawrence
When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.
~ John Keble
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
~ Lucan
Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
~ Elizabeth Elliot
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~ Anonymous
I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
~ Mary Todd Lincoln
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
~ Thomas Morton
Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.
~ Boxcar Bertha
Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
~ Barbara Gordon
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Old age is no place for sissies.
~ Bette Davis
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
~ Eugène Ionesco
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
~ M. Kathleen Casey
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~ George Eliot
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.
~ Tom O'connor
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
~ Shirley Hazzard
It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.
~ Lena Home
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
~ Shelley Winters
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
~ André Gide
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.
~ Margaret Drabble
Misery is a communicable disease.
~ Martha Graham
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
~ Ruth Gordon
Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.
~ Sydney Smith
Despair is criminal.
