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Topic·Self-hatred✕clear

TV program · Comedy (TV)

I do hate myself but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2001

★ 4.0

Travel writing

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Historical literature

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius

118 BC

★ 3.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910

★ 3.6

TV program · Drama (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Drama · Comedy

That voice, the one that tells you you're worthless and stupid and ugly…it goes away, right?

Hollyhock

Bojack Horseman · 2017

★ 3.6

Play · History (play)

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Henry V · 1599

★ 2.1

Novel · Coming of age story

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 1.9

Novel

As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf · 1927

★ 1.8

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