Negative Identity Quotes

I like being the hated one.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

I was born with an evil face.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

It doesn't fill me with joy, being the gun guy.

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

I realize everyone has the image and perception that I was the worst person.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

I'm a zero.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I'm not a chui-mui.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist.

I was always the bad student.