79 Quotes About Self-loathing

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.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

My past self would've hated who I am today And I still feel that hatred in the parts of him that stayed

My dreams are a cruel joke, they taunt me. Even in my dreams I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.

I wish I could change everything about myself but it's just—it's too late to do anything, that's the problem. It's all so fucked up, and I just don't who I am anymore, you know? Like, who is this person who made all these choices that I just have to live with? I look back at that person and I hate her, I hate her so much for what she did to me, that person is like my nemesis, my worst enemy, but the problem is, that person is me.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.