Definition of "self-hate" []

• Self-hatred. (noun)

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• "No other poem I know expresses the sense of hopelessness, self-hate—the self, like an animal, belongs caged behind bars—and despair of the suicide as profoundly as “Tulips.”"
• "Two weeks before the American poet Hart Crane killed himself, filled with self-hate, he slashed to bits with a knife the painting a friend, the Mexican artist David Siqueiros, painted of him, beginning with his eyes."
• "I can understand their self-hate and self-loathing, because liberals are nothing, have nothing, stand for nothing and believe in nothing."