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Discover LudwigThe phrase "pity myself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing feelings of self-sympathy or self-compassion in a situation where one feels unfortunate or wronged.
Example: "After losing the competition, I couldn't help but pity myself for not trying harder."
Alternatives: "feel sorry for myself" or "have self-pity."
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By Stephen Stepanchev The New Yorker, June 21 , 1993P. 56 "I pity myself as I pity God".--Nijinsky.
"I pity the people who take over for Vin Scully and Harry Caray, and Pat and John, but I don't pity myself.
"I was thinking about my propensity to pity myself when these things happen; however dramatic or sad they are," she said.
I do not pity myself for long, though, because only a few bedrooms away are my parents, the two people proudest of what I have accomplished, and rooting most for my success.
Thinking of that state of affairs, Thoreau writes, "I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him".
I didn't pity myself for being broke; I was more like a frustrated scientist frantically working to solve some kind of physics problem.
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I am not pitying myself, because I chose it.
I don't spend a lot of time pitying myself.
I feel like a terrible person because I'm sat pitying myself for not being able to get into the sector of helping people.
I wasn't going to start pitying myself.
I had a boyfriend last year who would tell me that I pitied myself.
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