Self Hatred Quotes

“Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terrorI hate the man in the mirrorCause his reflection makes the pain turn realer”

“Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.”

“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.”

“I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.”

“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.”

“I hate myself, and I want to die”

“There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.”

“Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated”

“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.”

“I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.”

“The self is hateful.”

“Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.”