Quotes About Self-doubt

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

I couldn't decide if I'd been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in any argument.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

I was never really on my side in any argument.

I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved.

Whenever I'm here,  I stopped, tried to pull it together. I just always feel like I'm a bad person when I'm here.

You're still desperate to have everyone think you're perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.

It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist. One of them, at least.

Is that wrong? I don't even know anymore.

I went into Andie's bathroom, took a piss, looked at myself in the mirror, and made myself say it: You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man. And when that didn't bother me, I thought: You're really not a good man.

All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie.

With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you? Last Orders

He began to wonder if there was something wrong with him.

And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse.

I look at the bottle. I feel so diminished just then that I don't even have the confidence to reach over and pour myself another, let alone smack my sister over the head with it.

well, I don't think I'm equipped to raise our daughter.

I tried to sound confident and strong, but there are some lies that the body just won't believe, and the words came out as a squeak.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.