Quotes About Self-blame

I hate you. If only I'd known. If only I'd been enough. I let you down. I wish I could have done something. I should have done something. Was it my fault? Why wasn't I enough? Come back. I love you. I'm sorry.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd raise yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Blaming yourself gives you the comfortable illusion of being in control.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up.

I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.

Quand cela m'est arrivé par mégarde, je me rattrapais, je m'en voulais.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

Furthermore, the image of parental strength and goodness always occurs in close conjunction with the development of a negative image of self. Patients who hate and blame themselves or perceive themselves as basically unlovable are defending and idealizing their parents.

Cuando sucede algo emocionalmente doloroso y nos decimos que la culpa es nuestra, en realidad estamos diciendo que tenemos control sobre ello: si nosotros cambiamos, el dolor desaparecerá.

That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

Shelby had thought distance from her hometown would make a difference, but she still feels she's responsible for everything bad that has ever happened in the world. She has bad karma.

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she'd left that Lowlander's arm, and it was no one's fault but her own. She shouldn't have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid on your attention every day, and then you are being told to blame yourself and to fiddle with your own habits while the world's attention burns.

We live in an extremely individualistic culture, where we are constantly pushed to see our problems as individual failings, and to seek out individual solutions. You're unable to focus? Overweight? Poor? Depressed? We are taught in this culture to think: That's my fault. I should have found a personal way to lift myself up and out of these environmental problems.

Trying to lose weight in the environment we've built is like trying to run up an escalator that is constantly carrying you down. A few people might heroically sprint to the top - but most of us will find ourselves back at the bottom, feeling like its our fault.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

In my experience, women are conditioned to expect and accept that life will not only let them down, but they themselves will be the reason for their own downfall in the fullness of time.