Self-pity is the emotion we experience when we're preoccupied with our troubles, focusing solely on our own suffering and perceived misfortunes, as we compare our lives with how we imagine the lives ...

“I think it hurts a little bit too much,” Mia (Emma Stone) says to Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) in “La La Land” while discussing the perils of trying to make it in the industry. If you’re an aspiring ...

ONE of the established traditions of American popular songs is that of being sorry for yourself. The lyric school of self-pity began in the early years of the nineteenth century, and it is still going ...

Charlie Munger never had patience for self-pity. The longtime Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman, who died at age 99, lived through losses that would have broken most people—and still refused to see ...