Alain de Botton Quotes

Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

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

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 for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

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.

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.

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

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

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

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

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

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.