Quotes About Inadequacy

O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in

Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

Various therapists and psychiatrists have diagnosed various things along the way, but what it comes down to is that Dina is no good at life. It takes a knack that she's never quite got hold of.

For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much—just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

You don't know how demoralizing it is to be a man with nothing to offer a woman.

We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.

If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something—and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it—then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God.

I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?

Do you have difficulty sleeping?" "Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.

I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.

I think the existential dilemma is: We're social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize that we're not as inadequate as we thought we were, and when we realize that everybody else also thinks they're inadequate, then that ache goes away and the idea that we're not a person of value disappears to some extent.

I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.