Self-dislike Quotes

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

I didn't like who I was. I spent a lot of my life regretting who I was, which is a sad thing to say.

I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people.

He who hates himself is not humble.

But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I need to have some sort of semblance of what the films with me are like. But it's not an enjoyable experience watching yourself. I hate it less than I used to but I still don't enjoy it.