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Tag: self, pity

Shelley Winters

I’m not overweight I’m just nine inches too short.

Margaret Drabble

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Misery is a communicable disease.

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.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Despair is criminal.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

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.

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.

Eugène Ionesco

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

M. Kathleen Casey

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.