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5e735a0 I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can't quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death. self-hatred Marya Hornbacher
cd0f445 If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago... self-loathing self-hatred Cheri Huber
76de407 The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. being-someone-else lying humanity inspirational being-someone-else-you-are-not hating-yourself trying-to-be-like-someone-else self-acceptance hiding shame self-hatred J.K. Rowling
2c455bc He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall. self-hatred Marya Hornbacher
b24be14 Self-hatred is worse than loneliness. self-hatred John Irving
41cd486 Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all. work will-to-work work-ethic self-hatred Ernest Hemingway
c77ddc7 There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. impotence pathology war-on-terror iraq-war self-hatred leftism guilt psychology Christopher Hitchens
ab55de7 I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it . . . depression the-black-prince iris-murdoch suicidal self-loathing self-hatred Iris Murdoch
a956a82 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. life self-pity the-sense-of-an-ending remorse regret self-hatred Julian Barnes
4724eb6 Statt seine Personlichkeit zu vernichten, war es nur gelungen, ihn sich selbst hassen zu lehren. jesuits self-hatred Hermann Hesse