Horace Quotes

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

So many people hide inside their clothes.

I remember specifically, for me, as a kid growing up or as a young teenager, if I ever cried or got upset in front of anybody, I would be so humiliated.

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I never had any friends beyond a certain superficial level. We hate to admit weaknesses. We were raised to want to get ahead, to be good and clever and successful. You're just ashamed to open up.

We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.