N P Ryan vs. Poetry: Sock Drawer - the sort of poetry that happens when you have a bad cold or variant of covid or even a subdued flu thanks to having the shot. Who knows? - either way this is the feeling-sorry-for-self result!
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#poetry #poem #selfpity #death #socks #mortality
#SelfPity
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique (“a great task that occurs once in two thousand years”), which must therefore be difficult to bear. This was important, because the murderers were not sadists or killers by nature; on the contrary, a systematic effort was made to weed out all those who derived physical pleasure from what they did. The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German Army, and their commanders had been chosen by Heydrich from the S.S. élite with academic degrees. Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, ch. 6 (1963)
More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/13940/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #banalityofevil #burden #difficulty #duty #genocide #Holocaust #killer #murder #murderer #persuasion #pity #selfcenteredness #selfdeception #selfpity #task #selfjustification
I have once again failed to cut a pie pumpkin in half, but succeeded in cutting my finger.
:singleTear:
How I hate cutting up squash.
The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7
More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness
#NickClegg, former Deputy Prime Minister and Meta executive, discusses his views on #socialmedia, #politics, and #SiliconValley culture. He believes social media empowers people but acknowledges its challenges. Clegg criticises the “#techbro” culture for its #machismo and #selfpity, contrasting it with his upbringing in a privileged but grounded family. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/facebook-nick-clegg-tech-bros-trump-leaving-silicon-valley?eicker.news #tech #media #news
I wish I had a talent, or at least an ability. #SelfPity
Over and over in my mind preside
the dark and somber moods Love puts me through.
Self-pity broods, so I have often cried,
“Alas, do other people feel this too?”
[Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente
le oscure qualità ch’Amor mi dona,
e venmene pietà, sì che sovente
io dico: «Lasso!, avviene elli a persona?»]
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 16 / Sonnet 7, ll. 1-4 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Frisardi (2012), ch. 9]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet…
#quote #quotes #quotation #anguish #depression #despair #infatuation #love #lovesick #melodrama #passion #sadness #selfpity #torment
The #4PathsOfCreationSpirituality - the #ViaPositiva, #ViaNegativa, #ViaCreativa & #ViaTransformativa - are the means by which we deepen our #vocation as #spiritualwarriors & move beyond #blame or #selfpity to become strong & useful #citizens of #strength, #conscience and #confidence. https://bit.ly/40Awghy
A quotation from Walter M. Miller, Jr.
To mourn is to pity oneself. The dead feel nothing. The mourner does not pity the dead. He pities himself for having lost the living.
Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923-1996) American science fiction writer
“The Soul-Empty Ones,” Astounding Science Fiction (1951-08)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/miller-walter-m/7444…
#quote #quotes #quotation #bereaved #death #grief #loss #mourning #selfpity
‘Nobody #loves me’:
Expert shares a #counterintuitive way to respond to your #child’s #selfpity
The #kneejerkreaction to make them #feelbetter isn't always right.
Day 7 of feeling crap, this time with a morning tease that maybe things are a little better? No! Lie down and be bleary, reprobate!
Anyway, this tiny gift from a plant still waking up from its hot-season dormancy...
I feel so poorly I think I must have man-flu #SelfPity
Modern song: "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I'm going to the garden to eat worms."
Ancient song: "I am a worm, and not a man; scorned by mankind and despised by the people." (Psalm 22:6)
"What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time." (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)
#SelfPity #worms #songs #Bible #NothingNewUnderTheSun
TL;DR is that I should not give anybody the ability to make me feel less valuable, smile less, have a bad attitude or ruin my day. No one can have that much control and power over my life.
#SelfEsteem #SelfWorth #SelfConfidence #SelfHatred #SelfPity #Silence
RE: https://shonk.social/notes/9osvy168qgvu00tn
Self pity is the biggest sin on this planet.
from #TheLastPassport 2009
at about 1h13m of 1h31m
spoken by #JimmyHager (1947) as George
#Trump only plays the "strong" Guy.
Inside he's a lame, wobbling, narcisstic Sausage full of #Anger and #Selfpity. He looked tired lately and his Selfesteem seems to crumble somehow and the Polls are the only Thing to date, he can pull himself up to. "The Future's uncertain and the End is always near" (#TheDoors).
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