Self Loathing Quotes - Page 2

• Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Self, Addiction

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

  David S. Baxter

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

  John Barth

  Self, Loathing, Loathe

  John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat-Boy”, p.83, Anchor

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• I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Night, Self

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• There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, Self, Loathing

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• Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.

  John Green

  Self, Monsters, Loathing

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• 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

  Self, Roots, Starting Over

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.81, Harvest House Publishers

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• And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

  Sylvia Day

  Self, People, Might

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.258, Penguin

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• Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

  Ben Harper

  Self, Loathing, Steps

  "Ben Harper: Me, Myself And I". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 14, 2011.

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• I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Happiness, Issues, Self

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• The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

  Theodor Adorno

  Fall, Eye, Self

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.103, Routledge

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• Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Clever, Self Esteem, Fall

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Violence, Loathing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.20, Criss Jami

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• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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• Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

  Demi Lovato

  Fighting, Light, Self

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

  David Walliams

  Self, Loathing, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Suicide, Self Harm, Arms

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• Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Suicide, Self, Opposites

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.15, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Religious, Self

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not
  what I was writing.

  Thom Yorke

  Writing, Self, Nuts

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• I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

  Michael Lewis

  Writing, Self, Loathing

  "Magic and Self-Loathing in Berkeley: Michael Lewis on Becoming a Writer". Interview with Alicia Whitaker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Self, Issues, Guy

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• When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

  Byron Katie

  Suicide, Gun, Self

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Boys, Self

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