Quotes for All
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it’s only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It’s like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces … Read more
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. Ezra Pound
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. Ethan Hawke
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America. Eric Hoffer
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. Emma Goldman
It is madness. And if you don’t know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It’s the same with self-loathing. You’re probably just normal and normal-looking but that’s not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just … Read more
A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’ Eminem
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing. Eminem
Think of how much we stress about living up to our \”potential,\” and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing. Emily Susan Rapp
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. … Read more