"For a long time I used to..." - Quote by C S Lewis
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
More by C S Lewis
“Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.”
“Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.”
“I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.”
More on Self Hatred
“Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terrorI hate the man in the mirrorCause his reflection makes the pain turn realer”
“I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.”
“Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.”