Quotes About Self-perception

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.

if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses.

I was considered attractive in those days, some people even called me beautiful, though my skin was never good and it was this that I noticed when I looked in the mirror

checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.

At the age of fifty-five you will get a saggy roll just above your waist even if you are painfully thin. This saggy roll just above your waist will be especially visible from the back and will force you to reevaluate half the clothes in your closet, especially the white shirts.

You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.

You don't know me. If I haven't figured myself out yet, you can't know me.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

We see what we want. We see how we want. We only see ourselves.

You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.

Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

As pessoas não conseguem conceber que alguém tenha uma virtude que elas não conseguem conceber em si mesmas. Em vez de acreditar que você é mais forte, é mais fácil acreditar que você é mais fraco.

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if i can't be beautiful, i want to be invisible

She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.

I had a system, too, though I was pretty sure I'd ever acknowledged it before, even to myself. My closet was arranged by size: Now, Not That Long Ago, Once Upon a Time, Never Again, and In Your Dreams. I didn't even have to check the tags to verify the humiliating range of ever-increasing numerals displayed on them. I wondered what size I'd be when I'd finally had enough.

And it explains much about me, too, about the limits of my experience, about the fact that the person I am in my head is so far from the person I am in the world. Nobody would know me from my own description of myself.

you wouldn't want them to know that in your heart, you are proud, and maybe even haughty, and are riven by thoughts the revelation of which would show everyone how deeply Not Nice you are.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself;

We're completely invisible. I thought it wasn't true, or not true of me, but I've learned I am no different at all. The question now is how to work it, how to use that invisibility, to make it burn.

In California she might have been called fat. But that was not a word Kate would have used to describe her. She had what Hawaiians called Mana. It meant spiritual power, a kind of inner strength people were drawn to.