Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

I really can't stand not to be loved. I really can't. If I walk into a room and feel there are people who don't really like me, I have to leave.

I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.

Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

I've lived my whole life trying to prove that I'm worthy of being a part of something because I never really felt that.

why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?

It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

I have to prove myself five times over.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.