Quotes tagged ‘Self-Loathing’

“I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist.”

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, imdb.com

“There is no more obvious marker for self-loathing than narcissism.”

— David Shields, shopcatalog.com

“Being an asshole online, whether it’s tagging the target of your wrath or subtly hinting at the identity of whoever you’re bashing, can make you seem unhinged and sickly.”

— Eve Peyser, vice.com

“Cyril: How do you not know the different kinds of porn? Archer: Because I have sex with actual women, Cyril! My girlfriend's not equal parts the Internet, a tube of Kentucky jelly, self-loathing, and a sock.”

— Adam Reed, Sterling Archer (voice), H. Jon Benjamin, imdb.com

“Moral vigilantism typically has its roots in repression and guilt. This generally manifests itself in low self-esteem and self-loathing. By punishing others, the unsub may also be punishing himself.”

— Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.”

— Yrsa Daley Ward, amazon.com

“I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.”

— Johnny Depp, huffingtonpost.co.uk

“4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me—I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, star…”

— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jim Carey, The Grinch, Jim Carrey, imdb.com

“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.”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com

“No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself.”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, 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

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing.…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com