Quotes About Inadequacy

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

Qué hacer de esta verdad: que soy nula, que no doy la talla en la vía en la que me he iniciado

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.

Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty

But I believe you are absolutely incapable of jealousy except as hurt vanity.

I'm not fit to touch her, he cried aloud to the four walls. I'm not fit to touch her little hand. Nevertheless, he went out to look for her.

It's just us. We're pitiful, that's all. The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.

She was too stupid to pull off something like that. "You're

better to supremely not act than to act spottily, inadequately and in vain, like the superfluous, inane, vast majority of men.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

La letteratura, come tutta l'arte, è la confessione che la vita non basta.

Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.

I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

The physical distress was over, but something else still remained, some sort of free-floating disquiet, at first hard to comprehend, but which he came quickly to understand for what it was: the splendor of the tunnels had kindled in him at first a sense of admiration verging on awe, but that had gone moving swiftly onward through his soul to become a crushing, devastating sensation of personal inadequacy.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in the unresolved or partially resolved tension of disparates. A word fixed or a statement isolated without any decorative or 'cubist' visual format, becomes a perception of similarity in dissimilars—in short a paradox.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

Her ambitions have always exceeded her abilities." He paused, and looked directly at Regal. "In royalty, that is a most lamentable failing.

Watching her, I'm filled with the age-old terror of making a mistake, looking foolish. How is it we all leave high school, but high school never leaves us?

a great man. But...not quite great enough.

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.

The other woman was chic and polished in a way Yvette could never be. Wavy, light brown hair, a sheer blouse and high heels only made her more attractive—and left Yvette feeling underdressed, out of place and far too intrusive. She'd come to the bar to give Cannon a message, to release him from any obligations, and instead she'd just...enjoyed him.