Loathing quotes
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself."
"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
"Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!"
"Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage."
"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
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"I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency."
"We are all wired into a survival trip, now."
"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
"There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more."
"Excessive love in loathing ever ends."
"Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'."
"Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship."
"For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!"
"Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing."
"I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going."
