“Sexualizing self-hatred is the hallmark of any relationship.”— Jocelyn Bioh, Nadia Vulvokov, Natasha Lyonne, imdb.com
“Betty Schaefer: Don't you sometimes hate yourself? Joe Gillis: Constantly.”— Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Joe Gillis, William Holden, imdb.com
“I wasn't never worth shit. Never did anything I actually wanted to do, was all I could do to do what other folks thought I should do. I wasn't never myself.”— Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Kevin Jones, Andre Holland, imdb.com
“I prefer to be happy, but self-hate will do in a pinch.”— Tom Fontana, Tobias Beecher, Lee Tergesen, imdb.com
“Young Desmond: [about Tom] Why does he hate us so much? Bertha Doss: Oh, he-he don't hate us. He hates himself... sometimes.”— Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight, Bertha Doss, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com
“I know the person in the mirror’s not a perfect one. I look at him everyday and think he’s not enough.”— NF, open.spotify.com
“No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone’s gonna think of to say about me, I’ve already said to me, about me, probably in the last half-hour!”— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com
“That’s the thing about Narcissus, its not that he’s so fucking in love with himself, because he isn’t at all, he fucking hates himself. It’s that without that reflection looking back at him, he doesn’t exist.”— Alan Ball, Billy Chenowith, Jeremy Sisco, imdb.com
“Accept your own story. Reject your past’s hold on your future but do yourself a favor: accept your past. Take it to the hill. Stand with it laid bare in the shadow of the cross. Believe God. Receive grace. Surrender self-hatred. Simply live as 1 to whom His grace was not in vain.”— Beth Moore, twitter.com
“The world hated me. But no more than I hated myself.”— Jennifer Salt, Paul the Illustrated Seal, Mat Fraser, imdb.com
“Whomever we choose to love is a representation of ourselves. So if we choose someone who has poor qualities, that is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves.”— Bailey York, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s a twisted land of self-hatred, sadness, and lots of repressed anger toward every person who’s ever hurt me.”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com