"Self-hatred" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... atrocious—horrible—this that he had done! God knew that he had not sought it—the thing had come on him. Surely even in her misery she could see that! Deep down beneath his grief and self-hatred, he knew, what neither she nor anyone else could know—that he could not have prevented this feeling, which went back to days before he ever saw the girl—that no man could have stopped that feeling in himself. This craving and roving was as much ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... stop saying things that made her want to scream? What was the matter, that all at once the beauty of her day should be smashed into a discolored memory of self-hatred? Was there nothing in all the world but sordid thoughts of oneself and of men who, causing them, said things to make ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades
... pathological aspect is relatively uncommon, in every person there are self-critical, self-condemning activities which sometimes for short periods of time reach self-hatred and disgust. McDougall makes a good deal of the self-abasing instinct which makes us lower ourselves gladly and willingly. This seems to me to be an aspect of the emotion of admiration and wonder, for we do not wish ordinarily to kneel at the feet of ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... in the heart, which, through holy self-hatred, endeavours to destroy the very last vestiges of ...
— The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation • "A Religious of the Ursuline Community" |
