Loathing Quotes - Page 8

• Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Self, Soul, Fleeing

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

  Meg Greenfield

  Attitude, Government, People

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• Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loyalty, Sports, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

  Audre Lorde

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• The other side of reverence is loathing.

  Martin Firrell

  Sides, Reverence

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• I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.

  Mary Butts

  Feelings, Sound, Nerves

  Mary Butts (1988). “The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

  Megan Fox

  Struggle, Mean, Self

  "Megan's self harm" by Cosmo Team, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.

  Kim Cattrall

  Hard Work, Past, Thinking

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

  John Barth

  Self, Self Loathing, Loathe

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

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• In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Play, Parent

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

  Jay McInerney

  Self, Novelists, World

  "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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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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• You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Love You, Dark

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• Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Self, Confusion

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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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• 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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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Respect, Hate, Soul

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• I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

  George Berkeley

  Angel, Thinking, Dungeons

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1820). “The Works of George Berkeley”, p.66

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• Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

  Charles Hermite

  Hands, Evil, Giving

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• Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

  Josephus

  Brother, Heirs, Undisputed

  Flavius Josephus (1970). “The Jewish War”, Penguin Classics

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• To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Wish, Venture

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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, States

  "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 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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• 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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• 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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