Zitat des Tages über Selbsthass / Self-Loathing:
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.
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.
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
Growing up, I was a self-loathing Igor who carried the queen's books. My job was to be the sarcastic sherpa, quietly providing the farce and adoration, then becoming part of the wall when cued.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.
My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.
A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.