#loathing

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. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#awfulness #consciousness #everywhere #existence #him

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me. ↗

— Wendy McClure

#self-loathing #self-worth #self-worth

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#happiness #humor #identity #intimacy #life

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

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

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

— George C. Scott

#get #pumped #question #realise #recognition

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... ↗

— Cheri Huber

#self-hatred #self-loathing #life

When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if you’ve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion. ↗

— Bauvard

#friendship #funny #humor #self-loathing #friendship

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hooker #hunter #loathing #thompson #waitress

Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true love, only sadism. They ALL need some good pharma. ↗

— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

#hate #love #sadism #love