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  • Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

    Self   Hatred   Sometimes  
  • Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

    John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
  • I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.
  • I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.

    Hate   Book   Character  
    E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.19, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
  • 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.

    Love   Positive   Anger  
    Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony
  • 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 for anti-American self-hatred.

    New York   Book   Self  
  • The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

    Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications
  • But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

    Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.81, Harvest House Publishers
  • It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

  • There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

    FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 01, 2011
  • 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 steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

    Jobs   Hangover   Sadness  
    "Distilled Kingsley: The late, great author - and prodigious drinker - gives his advice on beating a hangover" by Kingsley Amis, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 26, 2008.
  • The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

    Self   Hatred   Promise  
    Moss Hart (2014). “Act One: An Autobiography”, p.401, St. Martin's Griffin
  • I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

    Self   Hatred   Ignorant  
    "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.
  • 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.

    Sex   Sleep   Night  
  • I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

  • We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.

    Epidemics   Self   People  
    "LeAnn Rimes' scandal magnet days are over". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. July 7, 2016.
  • I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

    Hate   Mirrors   House  
    "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.
  • We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

    Self   Hatred   Form  
    Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.1965, Pan Macmillan
  • All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".

    Self   Hatred   Suffering  
    Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.6, Bantam
  • Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

    Self   Hatred   Degrees  
    "Intelligent Design" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.
  • I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

    Self   Long   Hatred  
  • People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

    Kindness   Stress   Self  
    Cheri Huber (2007). “Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline”, p.50, Shambhala Publications
  • We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

    Hate   Self   Hatred  
  • 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.

  • ... 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 fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

    Lying   Self   Hatred  
    Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media
  • There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help. Help is on the way. We'll help them whether they like it or not.

    Sorry   Self   People  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

    Self   Blood   Hatred  
  • I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.

    Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com
  • 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, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

    Self   Hatred   Missing  
  • Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

    Struggle   Pride   Psych  
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