{"quotes":[{"text":"I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!","author":"Stjepan Šejić","tags":["anger","lesbian-characters","lgbtqia-characters","life-of-ruin","lisa","relationship-advice","romance","self-loathing","stjepan-sejic","sunstone"],"id":17847,"author_id":"Stjepan+%C5%A0eji%C4%87"},{"text":"Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["ender","hate","lesson","self-loathing"],"id":19437,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["acceptance-of-oneself","behavior","growth","humility","improvement","love","morality","repentance","self-hate","self-loathing","self-love"],"id":31677,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression.And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["ambition","ambitious-minds","ambitious-people","driven","fall","fear","fire","grace","haunted","human-condition","humanity","idlesness","mankind","pride","self-hate","self-loathing","self-motivated","truth"],"id":70363,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.","author":"D.D. Barant","tags":["depression","guilt","insomnia","regret","self-loathing"],"id":104254,"author_id":"D.D.+Barant"},{"text":"A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["empathy","empathy-for-others","human-rights","love-of-nature","love-of-neighbor","self-acceptance","self-awareness","self-loathing","self-love","self-love","self-respect","self-understanding","sympathy"],"id":107863,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["self-acceptance","self-compassion","self-hatred","self-loathing","self-love","self-respect"],"id":128159,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["existential","existentialism","humble","humility","self-loathing","self-realization"],"id":128508,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.","author":"Gary Shteyngart","tags":["hate","joy","self-loathing","writing"],"id":144177,"author_id":"Gary+Shteyngart"},{"text":"Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["self-loathing","shame"],"id":144213,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}