Stephen Fry Quotes

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

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

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.

Anger is self-immolation.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.