Quotes About Self-consciousness

Anytime I stepped out on the red carpet in anything pink, I don't know what I was thinking.

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

The pathology is simply this: we have come to full reflective self-consciousness without the experience of intimacy with God. Because that crucial reassurance is missing, our fragile egos desperately seek other means of shoring up our weaknesses and defending ourselves from the pain of alienation from God and other people.

I don't want to look like a goddamn fan."you are a goddamn fan". I know, but I don't want to look like one.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than learning a new language. You lose your confidence. You want to disappear. Not be noticed. Say as little as possible.

I'm only 5ft 2in so a significant increase in weight is really going to be noticed.

I have no problem with people coming up to me and telling me they enjoy my work, what's weird is when you sense people noticing you, nudging each other, and you're not anonymous any more. You just feel exposed.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Younger? Hmm. Well, if you say so." Elinor glanced down at herself. Her mouse-gray sweater was filthy, and there were three runs in her stockings. "Meggie, that was very kind of you to help me back there in the church," she said, pulling her skirt down over her knees. "My knees were like jelly, I was so scared. I don't know what's come over me.

I decided that I wanted to say to Sin-Jun, I like your skirt. But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting. I kept rehearsing the sentence in my head, examining it for flaws.

Chimaera Most people, today, are chimaera chimerical: just fantasies of self-importance their own self-importance and sphinxes of self-consciousness.

She suddenly became aware of his keen blue eyes upon her, taking her all in. Instantly her broken boots and her frayed old frock hurt her. She resented his seeing everything. Even he knew that her stocking was not pulled up. She went into the scullery, blushing deeply. And afterwards her hands trembled slightly at her work, she nearly dropped all she handled. When her inside dream was shaken, her body quivered with trepidation. She resented that he saw so much.

To the question, 'What is God?' and 'What is man?' the answer is that the soul, conscious of its limited existence, is 'man', and the soul reflected by the vision of the unlimited, is 'God'. In plain words man's self-consciousness is man, and man's consciousness of his highest ideal is God.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

It is one of the strange truths of life that practically nobody likes to be stared at and that practically nobody can stop themselves from staring....

La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle...