Quotes About Inadequacy

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Those who cant usually criticize those who can.

Love hurts. Boys lie. Friends Cry. People Die. Parents yell. You always try. You're never good enough and you don't know why.

not nearly smart enough for such a very smart man.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

the comic inadequacy of consciousness trying to make terms with the rest of everything that is.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

The more anxious and alone or inadequate and incompetent they feel, the more tenaciously they hold to whatever thoughts, attitudes and behaviors bring relief. If they do not develop more effective coping mechanisms, the ones that bring relief solidify into self-defeating behaviors.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

It was obvious Station Security was out of its collective depth here. (At least it was obvious to me.)

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

She went on Instagram and saw everyone had worked out how to live, except her.

Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.

Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become. And there really were quite a lot of things she hadn't become. The regrets which were on permanent repeat in her mind.

People might be encouraged to feel inadequate, but they don't have to, as soon as they realise that the feeling is separate from the thing they are worried about