Brennan Manning Quotes

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

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

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

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

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.

It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

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

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

I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

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

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.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

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

I promote my own self-hatred.

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.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

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

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

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

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.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.