Thornton Wilder Quotes

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside 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.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

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

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.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The self is hateful.

In violence, we forget who we are.

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 would lynch him.