self-loathing

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
61aaac5	When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.	self-loathing	Chuck Palahniuk
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
fc47f32	I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.	self-loathing humble existentialism humility self-realization	Hermann Hesse
08f4c1b	When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.	self-loathing	Emma Forrest
cdd802c	I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.	depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad	Charles Dickens
1b2eacb	Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.	hate self-loathing lesson	Orson Scott Card
76c08b0	Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.	praise self-loathing self-esteem	Hanif Kureishi
db3b234	How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?	mind hate courage fear hope men-s-heart self-loathing fright mystery fight mental-illness torture	Joseph Conrad
b964a70	Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought up by devoted but severe and very pious parents and teachers in accordance with that doctrine that makes the breaking of the will the corner-stone of education and upbringing. But in this case the attempt to destroy the personality and to break the will did not succeed. He was much too strong and hardy, too proud and spirited. Instead of destroying his personality they succeeded only in teaching him to hate himself. It was against himself that, innocent and noble as he was, he directed during his whole life the whole wealth of his fancy, the whole of his thought; and in so far as he let loose upon himself every barbed criticism, every anger and hate he could command, he was, in spite of all, a real Christian and a real martyr.	lone-wolves self-loathing	Hermann Hesse
752c450	And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?	mankind humanity fear truth ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven idlesness self-motivated haunted human-condition grace self-loathing self-hate fall fire pride	Joseph Conrad
f11f30d	She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?	mankind humanity fear truth ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven idlesness self-motivated haunted human-condition grace self-loathing self-hate fall fire pride	Joseph Conrad
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
4f4ad79	Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.	depression identity life the-black-prince iris-murdoch unhappy self-loathing trapped horror	Iris Murdoch
692a6a9	You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public after all the tears and transports which I have myself confessed. But why is it contemptible? Can you imagine that I am ashamed of it all, and that it was stupider than anything in your life, gentlemen? And I can assure you that some of these fancies were by no means badly composed . . . . It did not all happen on the shores of Lake Como. And yet you are right -- it really is vulgar and contemptible. And most contemptible of all it is that now I am attempting to justify myself to you. And even more contemptible than that is my making this remark now. But that's enough, or there will be no end to it; each step will be more contemptible than the last . . .	self-loathing	Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

fc47f32

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

self-loathing humble existentialism humility self-realization

Hermann Hesse

08f4c1b

When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

self-loathing

Emma Forrest

cdd802c

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad

Charles Dickens

1b2eacb

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

hate self-loathing lesson

Orson Scott Card

76c08b0

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

praise self-loathing self-esteem

Hanif Kureishi

db3b234

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

mind hate courage fear hope men-s-heart self-loathing fright mystery fight mental-illness torture

Joseph Conrad

b964a70

Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought up by devoted but severe and very pious parents and teachers in accordance with that doctrine that makes the breaking of the will the corner-stone of education and upbringing. But in this case the attempt to destroy the personality and to break the will did not succeed. He was much too strong and hardy, too proud and spirited. Instead of destroying his personality they succeeded only in teaching him to hate himself. It was against himself that, innocent and noble as he was, he directed during his whole life the whole wealth of his fancy, the whole of his thought; and in so far as he let loose upon himself every barbed criticism, every anger and hate he could command, he was, in spite of all, a real Christian and a real martyr.

lone-wolves self-loathing

Hermann Hesse

752c450

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

mankind humanity fear truth ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven idlesness self-motivated haunted human-condition grace self-loathing self-hate fall fire pride

Joseph Conrad

f11f30d

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

mankind humanity fear truth ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven idlesness self-motivated haunted human-condition grace self-loathing self-hate fall fire pride

Joseph Conrad

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

4f4ad79

Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.

depression identity life the-black-prince iris-murdoch unhappy self-loathing trapped horror

Iris Murdoch

692a6a9

You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public after all the tears and transports which I have myself confessed. But why is it contemptible? Can you imagine that I am ashamed of it all, and that it was stupider than anything in your life, gentlemen? And I can assure you that some of these fancies were by no means badly composed . . . . It did not all happen on the shores of Lake Como. And yet you are right -- it really is vulgar and contemptible. And most contemptible of all it is that now I am attempting to justify myself to you. And even more contemptible than that is my making this remark now. But that's enough, or there will be no end to it; each step will be more contemptible than the last . . .

self-loathing

Fyodor Dostoyevsky