Charles Bukowski Quotes

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

There's always doubt and fear. If you're a human being, everybody's got it.

I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.