Sydney J. Harris Quotes

When we're obsessed with someone, it's never about them. It's about us hating ourselves. And that's generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who's overcompensating with being super happy. But she's broken.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

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 didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

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.

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

I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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

When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

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

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.