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"Self-pity" Quotes from Famous Books

... the most fashionable of hours. It was indeed quite evening, almost twilight, when he made his way home at last. As he neared the scene of action, the tired man condoled with himself over the untimely excitement that awaited him. He said to himself with pathetic self-pity that it was hard indeed for a man who had earned a little repose to go in upon all the troubles of another man's family. He had denied himself—he had not undertaken upon his own shoulders that pleasing burden; ...

— The Doctor's Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

... was delayed for a week and occasioned Lady Tamworth no small amount of self-pity. Here was noble work waiting for her hand, and duty kept her chained to ...

— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason

... unfortunate rather than reprehensible when moral disaster overtakes him; which induces that condoning of the moral rebel which is born not of love for the sinner but of indifference to his sin; which issues in that last degeneration of self-pity in which individuals and societies alike indulge; and in that repellent sentimentality over vice and crime which beflowers the murderer while it forgets its victim, which turns to ouija boards and levitated tables to obscure the solemn ...

— Preaching and Paganism • Albert Parker Fitch

... faster at the first sound of sympathy in Waitstill's voice, for self-pity is very enfeebling. She fairly sobbed as ...

— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin

... and convoyed them to the church, where Bonbright awaited them. She could not prevent a feeling of exasperation, especially toward Mrs. Frazer, who had moved from chair to chair, uttering words of self-pity, and pronouncing a constant jeremiad.... Such preliminaries to a wedding she had never expected to witness, and she witnessed ...

— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

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