Garry Disher Quotes

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

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.

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 never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

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

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

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

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I'd known no one was judging my every move, but I'm still like this!

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.

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.

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

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.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

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 am deebly self-conscious, and bad.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.