self-scorn

I simply wrote this post to unload some self-scorn and to warn others so that they don't make the same mistake.

Archive 2005-01-01 2005

A litany of self-scorn poured through Heath's mind, a mind made feeble from fighting gravity and floundering helplessness.

Hard Truth Barr, Nevada 2005

‘Noble!’ said he, with all the self-scorn which he so truly felt.

The Three Clerks 2004

The intellectual man who kills himself is most often brought to that decision by conviction of his insignificance; self-pity merges in self-scorn, and the humiliated soul is intolerant of existence.

New Grub Street 2003

He went and stood before his easel, hot with a blush of self-scorn.

Lodusky 1995

Her self-scorn made the colour surge into her cheeks and burn painfully over neck and brow.

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

But even self-scorn was a passing thought from which she turned wearily.

The Shadow of the East

She never probed her own soul with fierce self-scorn, as this quiet woman by her side did; -- accepted, instead, the passing moment, with keen enjoyment.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

His whole heart smote him with self-scorn, with pity, with remorse.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

After a time, perhaps, she would feel more the sadness, the cruelty, of the hurt; now she felt the outrage to her pride, and a fierce self-scorn that she could have ever loved a man so base.

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch