Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

I never give myself enough credit.

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' rather, but I don't think it. You know, so, I don't go around thinking this. I'm really hard on myself. I think that's quite good.

I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

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

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.