Self-pity Quotes

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Similar Quote:

G.I. Jane

"I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything," my mom says. She reaches out and touches the spine of a book, saying, "I wish, just once, I could say, ''This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.'"

— We killed them!..
— No, I kill. It is bad. Because you must kill. It is not my war. My war is finish. And if you want play Dostoevsky, I go.

War (2002)

Ivan Ermakov

John Boyle

After bad things happen, it's perfectly normal to replay the events, wishing you had done things differently.

— Well, at least you're going to get what you've always wanted.
— And what's that?
— Well, you tried to hang yourself twice. Now the King is gonna do it for you.
— I've been a fucking idiot. I haven't appreciated nothing, John.
— Are you fucking repenting or something?
— Drawing. I used to be good at drawing.
— Arthur, please, for God's sake, I don't need this.
— I should have listened more in class.
— What fucking class? You were never there.
— I used to draw horses. Stallions. Great big ones. They looked real. I should have done more with me life, John. Good things. Even Ada said it wasn't my fault.
— Arthur, will you listen? They're not gonna hang you.
— Says who?
— Tommy.
— And how is Houdini gonna get me out of this?

Its der Kopf abgeschlagen, wird niemand nach dem hute fragen.

German proverbs and sayings