Synonyms for self-pity
self-pity

Princeton's WordNet

1. self-pitynoun

   a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings

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1. • Sorrow

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1. Prashant Agarwal:

   It's been said that we achieve only if we expect something and have desire to achieve it, but if we start over expecting and are not happy to what have been achieved, then instead of building a positive approach to our success we tend to fall back and instead of writing our success story, we write the story of our own catastrophe. Then finally we trap ourselves in circle of self pity.

2. Millicent Fenwick:

   Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

3. James Stewart:

   The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

4. John W. Gardner:

   Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

5. Richard Willard Armour:

   Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.