Quotes About Self-doubt

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.

God, am I like the rest after all?—So he used to think starting awake at night—Am I like the rest?

Look here, old sport, he broke out surprisingly. What's your opinion of me, anyhow? A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.

As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad

I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print.

Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

However, when you're about to write something, knowing beforehand that it's sure to be imperfect, a failure, that is the most spiritually tormenting and humiliating of feelings. I not only feel that the lines I write are unsatisfactory, I know that I will find any lines I write in the future equally unsatisfactory

De meu, só sinto uma incapacidade enorme, um vácuo imenso, uma incompetência ante tudo o que é vida. (...) Nunca aprendi a existir.

I've done nothing nor will I ever do anything useful to justify my existence.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting.

I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

I doubt I'm the fastest player in the world!

When I see myself on screen, I am always looking at the bad bits and finding fault in something or the other.

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Fears are a part of our personality.

It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.

I'm not someone that always feels confident about himself.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

Me, I don't know anything. Don't even know fighters in my own division.