Quotes About Inadequacy

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

My time on the financial desk had become a slow ordeal of waiting for my superiors to discover more and more of how little I knew about what I was doing; and now however pathetically willing I might be to learn all the things I was supposed to know, it had become much too ludicrously late to ask.

he was too short a man to do this gracefully

God, I feel so stupid.

Correct or not, he felt himself to be a useless pensioner, an impotent object of charity.

In the kingdom of God, barking orders at others is not an acceptable way to try to solve problems created by our inadequacies.

They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.

The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.

Det var intet pent på denne mand, han var så ufuldkommen, stærk nok over akslerne; men med nogen skrøpelige lægger, han så ut som han var undfanget av en elev, en lærling i faget...

People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.

To envy was to lack.

Alas, I fear that floral arrangement and playing the harpsichord are forever out of my grasp. As you can imagine, the knowledge of my deficiencies is crushing

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

Often I think that writing is a futile effort; so is reading; so is living. Loneliness is the inability to speak with another in one's private language. That emptiness is filled with public language or romanticized connections. But one must be cautious when assuming meaning. A moment of recognition between two people only highlights the inadequacy of language. What can be spoken does not sustain; what cannot be spoken undermines.

Damn, even that trash rolls better than me . . .

I believe more youths stay out of leadership positions because of the fear of indequacy and criticisms.

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

AS A HUMAN BEING," Einstein once wrote, "one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

He sighed and smiled and touched my nose. 'Words! You funny thing! Words! Verbigation! You know you will spoil everything if you have to verbalize about it. Words never work properly. Life is difficult, subtle, complex. Life, as Lawrence might say, is a 'winged gift'. Words are always inadequate to express the complexity of a situation.

Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me.

He could not love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?

Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" – Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest. Her heart is fit for home – I – a Sparrow- build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest

Whence come these unreasonable hatreds, and why their unifying effect? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self.