Richard Lewis Quotes

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

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

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

Everyone fears rejection.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

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.

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I didn't have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.