Seneca the Younger Quotes

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

I promote my own self-hatred.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

The self is hateful.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

Every man is his own chief enemy.