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Quotes About Self-image

A person never finds himself a total coward, because if something frightens him he runs just far enough away to consider himself a hero again!
~ Robert Musil
What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
I was tired of looking in the mirror and not liking what I saw.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!
~ L.M. Montgomery
Me gustan las cosas bellas y odio que el espejo no refleje algo hermoso. Me hace sentir muy triste, igual que cuando veo algo horrible.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss
~ L.M. Montgomery
Looks like a cartoon of himself.
~ L.M. Montgomery
What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out.
~ Larry McMurtry
It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.
~ Laura Ruby
The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me...
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut out my heart or take every pill that was ever made.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
She complains all the time about her hair turning gray and her butt sagging and her skin wrinkling, but I'm supposed to be grateful for a face full of zits, hair in embarrassing places, and feet that grow an inch a night. Utter crap.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. --- I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It's an antique mirror with little waves on the surface of it. Sometimes it can make you look like an elegant princess trapped in time. Other times, it makes you look like a pig.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Is it just another pore expanding? God, I already have pores the size of pudding cups, that's the last thing I need, another pore...to fill in with spackle.
~ Laurie Notaro
Do you know that I saw a picture of myself and genuinely thought that someone had eaten a powdered doughnut over my head?
~ Laurie Notaro
In the Anthropologie mirror, I saw wrinkles, dents, flaps, bumps, and something that caused me to say to myself, "I hope that's a tumor and not a horn.
~ Laurie Notaro
I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
~ Jane Birkin
Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
~ Richard Simmons