Aidan Chambers Quotes

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

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.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

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

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

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

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

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.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.