Self Hatred Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Self, Hatred, Degrees

  "Intelligent Design" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.

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• Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Hatred, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Sorry, Self, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• 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.

  Nan Goldin

  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can convince people that the problem is not coming from the top but is, rather, being created by the people who are being oppressed.

  Trevor Noah

  Self, People, Hatred

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self, Hatred, Ignorant

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• 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 things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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• 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

  Self, Hatred, Noble

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Hatred, Despise

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

  Cheri Huber

  Kindness, Stress, Self

  Cheri Huber (2007). “Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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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 visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Loyalty, Dog, Children

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• 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".

  Barbara Brennan

  Self, Hatred, Suffering

  Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.6, Bantam

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• The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

  Adam Phillips

  Stupid, Vocabulary, Self

  Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.223, Penguin UK

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• No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Self, Hatred, Groups

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• If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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• Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Self, Broken

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• 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 up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?

  Nick Hornby

  Pain, Real, Expression

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.127, Penguin

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• We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Self, Hatred, Form

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.1965, Pan Macmillan

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• 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 or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

  Louise Hay

  Self, Hatred, Suffering

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• 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.

  John Podhoretz

  New York, Book, Self

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• 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

  Sex, Sleep, Night

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• I promote my own self-hatred.

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, Hatred, My Own

  "Never Boring: The Curious Case Of Jonathan Ames" by Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 04, 2011.

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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 be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Hatred, Needs

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• We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Self, Hatred

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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 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.

  Kingsley Amis

  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.

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