Quotessence
Home / Topics / Self Hatred Quotes

Self Hatred Quotes

Browse 168 quotes about Self Hatred.

Related topics

PeopleIfsHateThinkingWay

Self Hatred Quotes

“But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.”

FeelsSelfNextImpossibleRootsHatredForgivingExtremesIntenseSevereStarting OverLoathingSelf LoathingSelf HatredForgive YourselfInhibitionsUnforgivableNot Forgiving
Book:When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back
Create image

“All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".”

SelfSufferingCausesCan DoMastersIllusionHatredIncludingIllnessCuresSelf HatredTerminalSeparatenessTerminal Illness
Book:Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
Create image

“If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.”

IfsWantHumansMeanSelfFormAcceptancePrideSelf LoveEssentialsHatredRegardDenyDenialDistinctionNarcissismAffirmationBondageFear Of DeathAmourSelf HatredWhat It Means To Be HumanDenial Of Death
Author:Simon Critchley
Create image

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

FirstsLooksSoulSelfReasonBlackRealizingWhiteStruggleDoubtIdentityPositionStudentsCollegeExpressionPrideEvidenceHatredMirrorsConfusionDamageNo ReasonExaminationIncompleteSelf HatredPathologyPsychBlack Pride
Author:Barack Obama
Create image

“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary”

HumansDoeSelfLyingSufferingEasyBecomingMoralityDestructionHatredExtraordinaryRefuseMythHopelessnessFlawedLifelongConditioningDespisedSelf Hatred
Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
Create image

“I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.”

IfsTwoBookSelfCharacterSeemsHateChoicesReaderIdealsPerfectionHatredI HateEndlessBotherDescriptionAttributesShatteredHeroinesSelf HatredTwo Choices
Book:Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List
Create image

“He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?”

MindKindRealSelfSometimesFeelingsAgePainUsedBitsPleasureRocksExpressionHatredStrongerAngryRageGuiltyLoudFedsRock MusicFed UpReplacementsSelf HatredGuilty PleasureReal Feelings
Book:About a Boy
Create image

“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.”

TwoSelfUseJobsLastsBrainSilenceSadnessCryAnxietyHatredStealingOver YouMilkConspiracyMinorsFamily And FriendsCompoundsHangoverSelf HatredIneffableSpilt Milk
Author:Kingsley Amis
Create image

“She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”

GivingChildrenLongSelfPassionLostInterestVisionDoubtDogExpressionBirthHatredRemainsLifetimeLoyaltyYesterdayGenerositySelf InterestMockeryServitudeSelf HatredThoughtfulnessGreat Poetry
Author:Thornton Wilder
Create image

“In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

IfsFeelsYearsFirstsSelfWholeFeelingsRealityWantedLostTermToo MuchWifeYouthAmbitionFirst TimeHatredMy WifeWhole LifePityBotherReality Of LifeAbandonedRemorseGave UpSelf PityExaminingSelf HatredPitiful
Author:Julian Barnes
Create image

“I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.”

ThinkingWaySelfEyeAnswersHappenedHatredBreathsRuinsLoathingDeep BreathSelf LoathingSelf HatredDevastationTake A Deep BreathWreckage
Book:A Million Little Pieces
Create image

“And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.”

IfsWorldWayLittlesStillsSelfBodyWantedBitsInterestingStrangeLittle BitHatredLongingEnvyEndlessDespiteCartoonSequenceAnimatedSuccess And FailureLoopsSelf HatredLining Up
Book:The Interestings
Create image

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

ThinkingSelf LoathingSelf Hatred
Book:The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up
Create image

“Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.”

PeopleLoveGivingMindSelfDoneCertainEnergyEffortEmotionQualityPsychologyPositiveNegativeHatredAngerHealPoisonToxicPsychiatristLoathingNegative PeoplePositive EnergySelf LoathingSelf HatredPositive PeopleEmotional Energy
Book:Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love
Create image