Loathing Quotes

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

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.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

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.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

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!

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

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.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.