Synonyms for self-pity
self-pity

Princeton's WordNet

1. self-pitynoun

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

Matched Categories

1. • Sorrow

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1. John W. Gardner:

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

2. André Maurois:

   Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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. 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.

5. Helen Keller:

   Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.