James Baldwin Quotes

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

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

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

I promote my own self-hatred.

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.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

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

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.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

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.

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

I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.