Self Hatred Quotes

72 quotes by 68 authors

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. — Michelle Cruz
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred. — Aleksandar Hemon
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness,… — Kenneth Wapnick
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy. — Elizabeth Hardwick
It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree… — Louise Hay
I promote my own self-hatred. — Jonathan Ames
At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in. — Ani DiFranco
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over… — Eric Hoffer
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. — Mason Cooley
I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the… — Junot Diaz
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. — Steven Pinker
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle… — John Podhoretz
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. — Paul Tillich
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and… — Simone Weil
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred. — Sharon Salzberg
... 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… — Dorothy Allison
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only… — E. Lockhart
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… — Nick Hornby

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