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Quotes About Self-worth

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .
~ Mickey Rourke
Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
~ Dr. Seuss
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
~ Sara Maitland
Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.
~ Amy Dickinson
Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
~ David Levithan
I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
~ Marilyn Monroe
you're too pretty for your own good, maybe. It could get you an early start on a miserable life.
~ Wendell Berry
Something better! Everybody's talking about something better. The important thing is to feel good and be proud of what you got, don't matter if it ain't nothing but a log pen.
~ Wendell Berry
The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband.
~ Wilkie Collins
we will leave this place, and go into other lodgings - you as the mistress; and I as the maid. I should be found out, ma'am, interposed Louisa, trembling at the prospect before her. I am not a lady. And I am, said Magdalen bitterly. Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance. I shall put the gown on your back, and the sense in your head.
~ Wilkie Collins
with the morbid realisation that his sexual being was a dull thing, a lifeless thing, a mass-produced marionette with chipped paint and fraying strings
~ Will Self
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd
~ William Blake
I may be a shit writer,' I remember him saying once, 'but I'm richer than any of the good ones.
~ William Boyd
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
~ William Congreve
One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo
~ William Congreve
You will find that even injustice is scarcely worthy of what you believe yourself to be.
~ William Faulkner
Bevor man bei Sich eine Depression oder geringes Selbstwertgefühl diagnostiziert... sollte man sicher gehen, dass man nicht nur von Arschlöchern umgeben ist.
~ William Gibson
I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.
~ William Golding
There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
~ William Goldman
Enough about my beauty, Buttercup said. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
~ William Goldman
Isn't it awful what we'll do in this world to feel wanted?
~ William Goldman