Negative Self-Perception Quotes

I'm just another stupid human.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Whenever I wear things that feel too tight or dig in that's always a clear understanding that I'm not going to feel good that day.

Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

"I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.” Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.