Self Hate Quotes

• I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

  Gerard Way

  Kings, Trying, Want

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• Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Hate, Breathing

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• If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Voice, Critics, Not Afraid

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

  Frank Ocean

  Hate, Ocean, Remember

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• America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, Lynching

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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

  Paul Valery

  Hate, Mean, Self

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• To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings we are the creatures of the greatest complexity on this planet. Respect for this complexity includes our insisting on acceptance of the inconsistent and incongruous.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Hate, Acceptance, Self

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• Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Hate, Buddhism

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• You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.

  Tony Gaskins

  Real, Hate, Important

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• I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

  Herb Goldberg

  Meaningful, Hate, Self

  Herb Goldberg (1977). “The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege”

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• Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Years, Self

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• What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.

  Hillel the Elder

  Hate, Law, Study

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• That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

  Herbert Spencer

  Hate, Feelings, Impossible

  Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.153, London, D. Appleton

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• Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Inspirational, Hate, Vices

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.156

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• By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Despise, Teach

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.21

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• Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Miscellaneous, Maxims

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

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• Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

  Anthony Ryan

  Hate, Men, Glory

  Anthony Ryan (2013). “Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's Shadow”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  Fiona Apple

  Hate, Mirrors, House

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Responsibility, Men

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• We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Hate, Writing

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• I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Girlfriend, Hate

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• I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.

  Erica Jong

  Prayer, War, Hate

  "Into the Lion's Den". www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2000.

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• I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

  Gerard Way

  Kings, Hate, Self

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• If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

  Cheri Huber

  Long, Beautiful Life, Loathing

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• Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

  Alice Walker

  Hate, War, Men

  Alice Walker (1989). “The temple of my familiar”, Harcourt

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