Quotes About Self-consciousness

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

It feels good expressing my feelings but knowing your being judged doesn't...

I always fear being judged. I can't handle it, whenever I go out I try and make myself stand out as little as possible...Life

Being nervous when talking in front of a lot of people. Sweaty hands, shakey voice, forgetting what your about to say.

He saw me watching and rubbed self-consciously at his calloused hands. "I know I am ugly to you." No, I thought. My grandfather's halls are filled with shining nymphs and muscled river-gods, but I would rather gaze on you than any of them.

The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was like being in a three legged race with someone you didn't like.

Shyness is..

Redheaded people can look quite strained when they are raising eyebrows that aren't really there.

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton.

Of all the complexities of the ten thousand things, the self-consciousness of man is ten thousand times the most complex.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, pointy pink glasses, and no courage for flirting. It's doesn't take long to learn that I'm ridiculous.

I don't like the eyes. You get so tired, don't you? Of being looked at. Maybe some women feel flattered, but I've always felt the moment a man's eyes settle on me, he's halfway to feeling he can do anything.

the house. She was ashamed about the Mars Bar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?

Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again. I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.

blushing propensity should correlate with measures of people's interpersonal concerns.

Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.