Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

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

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I'm a little bit tough because I can't afford to get my heart broken.

I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.

I've got so many weaknesses.

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

I consider myself a little weak.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.