Irvine Welsh Quotes

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

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.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she didn't know where to put it was both heartbreaking and interesting to me.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...

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

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

I promote my own self-hatred.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.