Self Hatred Quotes
72 quotes by 68 authors
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.
— Saul Bellow
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In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
— Brennan Manning
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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…
— Kingsley Amis
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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…
— Cheri Huber
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
— James A. Baldwin
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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…
— Marya Hornbacher
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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…
— Thornton Wilder
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The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for…
— Naomi Wolf
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There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to…
— Thornton Wilder
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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…
— Julian Barnes
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However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
— Dorothy Rowe
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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…
— James Frey
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Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
— Alain de Botton
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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,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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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…
— Meg Wolitzer
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She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.
— Derek Raymond
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[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
— Robert Burton
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
— John Irving
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
— Andre Malraux
Who Wrote These Self Hatred Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 72 Self Hatred Quotes, led by these top contributors: