Abraham Polonsky Quotes

The self is hateful.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

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

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it.

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

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.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

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

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

This means nothing,” she said. “Less than nothing,” he lied. “I’ll hate myself later.” “I hate myself now.

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.