Quotes About Inadequacy

What are they among so many?

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee?

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Something precious was taken from us and the compensations were inadequate.

However beautiful it looked, it was quite inadequate to illuminate the altarpieces which mostly hung in the gloom of the side chapels; it only made the darkness more intense.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

She was achingly effortless, and she would never, in a million years, choose me.

But then, I've always been terrible at math.

I don't get no respect. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother.

narcissists sense that their partner will inevitably see how inadequate they are and leave for someone else. Rather than wait for that reality, they'd rather control the inevitability and leave first.

Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?

My hints had, undoubtedly and unintentionally, made her feel insecure, guilty, inadequate, afraid that she was losing whatever it was that turned me on; in short, it aroused all the self-doubt so readily awakened in women after thousands of years of servitude. Hence my zeal in denying the effects of time was abetted by Laura's complicity.

Mon je ne me suffit pas.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

Remember that envy is one of mankind's greatest flaws. It leads to recklessness in the one who envies and possessiveness in the one who has you by his side.

I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.

The words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

I felt singularly ashamed of not being a doctor.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Sentimos tantas vezes que nos faltam algumas coisas, e por vezes nos parece que o que nos falta um outro possui. ... E assim imaginamos nós mesmos as perfeições que criam o nosso suplício.