“Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.”— Vironika Tugaleva, amazon.com
“When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.”— Emma Forrest, amazon.com
“Yes, you made a mistake. You're human. You don't have to do it like anyone else does. Fixing it and making amends will help. Self-loathing will not. Reach out to someone we trust--a person who has earned the right to hear our story and who has the capacity to respond with empathy.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.”— James R. Silvestri, amazon.com
“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts -- you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”— D.D. Barant, amazon.com
“Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.”— Shaikh Ashraf, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort t…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“Being too self-deprecating. When you're talking to your crush, please don't put yourself down. Please.”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“All hatred is self-hatred. This is why we become so goddamned heartbroken. We cannot lose people; we can only lose ourselves in an idea of them. We decided how we felt about ourselves through them - for better or for worse - so when we perceive that their mindset changes from loving us to loving som…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com