53 Quotes About Self-hate

I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.

Selfies often deceive us into believing that some people love themselves, or the way they look.

The average person’s self-esteem is so low that they are way less frequently surprised that they love someone than they are surprised that someone loves them.

Every sane adult is insecure about at least one thing on or about them.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.

I fucking hate that they did this to me. I hate that something I love made me hate myself. How is that fair? In what world is that fucking fair?

Something was wrong with him - and down deep he'd known his whole life. Maybe the wards had even said something. (You are not right, boy.) Maybe the other children had. (What's wrong with you?) Maybe it had happened while he watched one child after another walk off with a family from the Eastern Villages, with a merchant or a farmer. (You know no one will ever take you, right?) Maybe he'd even said it to himself.