Quotes About Self-doubt

Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

Bütün hayat?m?z? yersiz çekingenliklerle mi geçirece?iz Olric? Cesareti yaln?z kafam?zda m? ya?ayaca??z?

Y?llard?r günlük tutmay? hayal ederdim. ?imdi vaktim var: bir ?ey dü?ünemiyorum. Yazd?klar?m? okudum: aptalca sözler etmi?im. Kendimi kötülemeye söz vermi?tim: onu da yapam?yorum. ?nsan Kafka'y? okuyamazsa... bitiktir i?i. Bir silgi gibi tükendim ben. Ba?kalar?n?n yapt?klar?n? silmeye çal??t?m: mürekkeple yazm??lar oysa. Ben, kur?unkalem silgisiydim. Azald???mla kald?m.

There are moments in your life when you feel the weight of your stupidity as an unbearable thing. You hardly believe that the thoughts you've had and the beliefs you've held are actually your own, yet they have been, and you know, with the full certainty of religious conviction, that you are flawed in a deep and terrible way.

No. You won't do. You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It made me feel so lonely, somehow... I'm really just a foolish and useless person.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Am I wrong in thinking that these people have become such complete egoists and are so convinced of the normality of their way of life that they have never once doubted themselves?

no thought in the world is worse than the realization that, "My life is a nuisance to others. I am useless.

It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?—I don't know.

Sei que as pessoas gostam de mim, apenas me falta a capacidade de amar alguém. (Embora eu tenha minhas dúvidas se os seres humanos, em geral, têm essa capacidade de "amar".)

I ain't sure whether you're crazy or not," said he to the man in the lookin-glass. "I ain't never been sure.

I was twenty now, and had given up all hope of being a singer or ever getting out of Aston. PA system or no PA system, it wasn't going to happen. I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I told myself. 'You can't even play an instrument, so what hope d'you have?'

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

I'm a little, short, fat fellow, and girls don't go for me, that's all. I'm not like you. I mean, you joke around, and they laugh at you, and you get along fine. I just stand around like a bug. What's the sense of kidding myself? Everybody's always telling me to get married. Get married. Get married. Don't you think I wanna get married? I wanna get married. They drive me crazy. Now, I don't wanna wreck your Saturday night for you, Angie. You wanna go somewhere, you go ahead. I don't wanna go.

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.

when it comes to being a writer: getting out of your own way, and getting rid of the countless negative thoughts that tell you what a hopelessly uninteresting specimen of humanity you are.

We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.

There are no grown-ups. Everyone is winging it; some just do it more confidently.

But if you worry about other people as you write a first draft, you will not be able to free your unconscious mind to give up its treasures. It will be bound by the great dogs of your fear,

Once out of work, Monty, like many actors, lost his confidence, and his sense of identity.

If a beauty like Letitia Tarnower couldn't interest Mairelon, and a brilliant wizard like Renee D'Auber hadn't attracted him in all the years they'd known one another, what chance did she, Kim, have?

Insecurity is normal. Count on it.