Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I'm horribly self-critical.

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

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

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

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

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

I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

When I don't play well, nobody needs to say anything to me. I beat myself up.

No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.

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.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

I promote my own self-hatred.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

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 tough time judging myself.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

I'm afraid of me.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.