#loathing

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me. ↗

— Wendy McClure

#self-loathing #self-worth #self-worth

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#happiness #humor #identity #intimacy #life

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it. ↗

— George C. Scott

#get #pumped #question #realise #recognition

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

#self-hatred #self-loathing #life

When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if you’ve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion. ↗

— Bauvard

#friendship #funny #humor #self-loathing #friendship

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hooker #hunter #loathing #thompson #waitress

Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true love, only sadism. They ALL need some good pharma. ↗

— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

#hate #love #sadism #love

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#orgone #respect #self-loathing #success #men

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#books #depression #insecurity #isolation #language