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Quotes About Self-loathing

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.
~ Janeane Garofalo
She had taught him to loathe himself, and then, having done that, she had left him.
~ Philip K. Dick
Cooper's loathing of everyone else—his parents, the people in his town, the men he chats with—is surpassed only by his loathing of himself.
~ David Levithan
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
~ Dean Koontz
I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.
~ Unknown
I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of dieting and gaining the weight back.
~ Marti Noxon
I live, But live to die; and, living, see no thing To make death hateful, save an innate clinging, A loathsome, and yet all invincible Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I Despise myself, yet cannot overcome–– And so I live. Would I had never lived!
~ Lord Byron
I hate myself pretty often .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. Pretty fucking often
~ Jim Lynch
I just hate feeling like this. I hate myself, for being ugly, fat, horrible, a weirdo, a freak, a bi....
~ Unknown
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
~ Unknown
People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
~ Tori Amos
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent?
~ Anne Rice
When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if youve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion.
~ Unknown
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
The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.
~ Unknown
Men are trapped in a different dichotomy, that which gives them a hard-on must remain a problem. Above all, no reconciliation. Because a peculiar thing about men is that they tend to despise that which they desire, as well as despising themselves for the physical manifestation of that desire.
~ Virginie Despentes
To the man who has begun to hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of a nation.
~ Vivekananda
In that one instance I hated everyone in my life, everyone and everything, and me most of all.
~ Unknown
Some good-bad nights I spent, loving my self-hatred.
~ Don DeLillo
What I did experience when alone was a sort of general neurotic horror, a common attack of nerves and self-loathing magnified to the power of ten
~ Donna Tartt
Then I'm making a choice right now, to not join you in your self-loathing pity party. Guilt and regret are useless emotions.
~ J.A. Konrath
with himself for getting so drunk the
~ M. William Phelps
I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing left that I could create.
~ John Fowles
There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.
~ Rooney Mara