Mackenzie Phillips Quotes

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

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

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.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

I promote my own self-hatred.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

I have some anger issues.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

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

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wasn't healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode - to fight.

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

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

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

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.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.