Simone Weil Quotes

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

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

I promote my own self-hatred.

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

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

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.

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

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

I can be a cruel person.

Whether it's a spouse, family member, coworker, former classmate, or the mother of your child's best friend - you know exactly what I mean. Just when you feel your worst and are judging yourself harshly, someone comes along who seems determined to make you feel even worse about yourself than you already do. Who needs it?

I'm a gross human being.

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

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.

I'm not a mean person, so it kind of hurts when people are mean to me, but that's life.

I saw everyone else as 'normal' and myself as messed up in a way. And all of that made me so angry. Stealing allowed me to take my anger out on something else.

I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.

My role in 'Love Sonia' gripped me to the extent that I started despising the male touch. I would stand under the shower for long spells. It just didn't feel nice.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.