Hosea Ballou Quotes

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

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.

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.

I still got the nasty in me.

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

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

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

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

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

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

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

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.