Quotes About Self-blame

It's not your fault that you are stupid.

Neither my sisters, who were nowhere near, nor I knew depression; we knew bad mood. We didn't know drinking as disease, but as character flaw. Weakness. We didn't know "dysfunctional," but we lived it. We knew that if you were miserable, you brought it on yourself. She taught us.

Elena) Algo criara dentro dela um estado de perpétua defesa contra as possibilidades de experiência, um impulso de fugir que a retirava das cenas de prazer onde poderia se expandir. Por muitas vezes atingira esse limiar, mas fugira. E só podia culpar a si própria pelo que perdera e ignorara.

I discover that it is possible to be angry with someone who has died. It is possible to hate yourself for being angry with someone who has died. It is possible to believe that you will die from grief, that somehow your breathing will catch itself up and simply stop. It is possible to believe that you could have stopped the terrible thing that happened at any time, if only you had known.

we women always feel guilt, even about things that can't be helped.

The man who once said I was the best thing to ever happened to him no longer even cares that he is making cry. He is breaking my heart. He is making me hurt more than anyone ever has because I am for some reason willing to put up with it, and think somehow it's my own fault, that I have done something to make him hate me.

I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

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

It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.   One

When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.

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Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

you tend to beat yourself up when your decisions turn out poorly.

There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

As the neural grooves of self-blame and regret get established, rumination becomes your default mode.

But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine atone—no one else— I did it all myself! What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Her reasons were as valid now as they had been then, but it didn't stop her from blaming herself

Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.