Grace Metalious Quotes

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

The voice of the intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilty, and we know we also get angry when we feel guilty.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.