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

Thinking Self Loathing Self 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

Source: 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

“Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.”

Source: Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

“You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”

Inspirational Self Feelings Joy Self Esteem Self Love Esteem Self Respect Loving Life Loathing Self Loathing Self Worth And Love

Author:Ram Dass

“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.”

Source: Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

“Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing”

Self Arms Suicide Wounds Loathing Intricate Self Loathing Self Harm Grids Self Inflicted Self Inflicted Wounds

Author:Jay McInerney

“It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.”

“It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.”

Said Self Self Esteem Pride Lows Recovery Esteem Description Alcoholics Crushed Low Self Esteem Loathing Self Loathing Larger Than Life Egomaniacs

Author:Gary Oldman

“They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.”

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”

Writing Mind Soul Self Feelings Crush Isolated Panic Procrastination Consumed Good Day Neurotic Loathing Caffeine Self Loathing Inadequacy Crippled

Author:Robert De Niro

“There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.”

Self Enjoy Recognition Realising Loathing Self Loathing

Author:George C. Scott

“I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.”

Self Grew Anxiety Grew Up Panic Loathing Self Loathing Panic Attacks

Author:Dane Cook

“I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.”

Thinking Self Shame Homosexual Loathing Self Loathing Cornered Morticians

Author:Michael C. Hall

“When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from shopping to showers to panic attacks.”

Self Home Behinds Break Virtue Discipline Activity Fellows Coffee Supreme Shopping Panic Showers Suicidal Loathing Self Loathing Panic Attacks Coffee Break

Book:Home Land: A Novel

Source: Home Land: A Novel

“I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.”

Way Self Moments Hate Best Way Frustration Loathing Intervals Self Loathing Don't Hate Hate Myself

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing. This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that "bravely" trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.”

“Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.”

Self Women Discipline Frustration Self Discipline Willpower Loathing Self Loathing Discipline And Self Control

Book:A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can

Source: A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can

“Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.”

Knows Years Made Self Parent Half Taught Comfortable Instance Denial Addresses Loathing Being A Parent Self Loathing

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.”

Wells Self Fronts Discipline Computer Resentment Loathing Typewriters Self Loathing

Author:David Duchovny

“Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.”

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.”

Knows Way Self Bits Gone Bangs Know Yourself Don't Trust Loathing Self Loathing Don't Trust Anyone Can't Trust Anyone

Author:Johnny Depp

“The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.”

Important Ideas Reality Self Loathing

Book:The Crown Conspiracy

Source: The Crown Conspiracy

“I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.”

Ifs Way Feels Made Stills Self Enough Bits Enjoy Elements Mark Strive Loathing Self Loathing

Author:David Walliams

“My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.”

Believe Important Self Used Actors Christianity Acceptance Capacity Criticism Nonsense Monk Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Tom Baker

“The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.”

Self Terrible Truth Is Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Shirley Manson

“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”

Ifs I Can Self Feelings Music Music Is Loathing Therapeutic Self Loathing Feeling Bad

Author:Eminem

“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'”

I Can Self Problem Kids House Sides Fame Woe Loathing Self Loathing Haunted Houses Woe Is Me Kmart

Author:Eminem

“Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.”

Way Firsts Self Turns Process Rooms Crafts Locks Fever Loathing Screwed Up Self Loathing Fever Pitch

Author:Warren Leight

“Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.”

Stills Self Form Steps Amount Studios Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Ben Harper

“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.”

Kind Self Stuff Perfection Hollywood Obsession Our Society Neurosis Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Ethan Hawke