Denise Van Outen Quotes

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it's supposed to be so organic that you feel like you're doing something incorrect.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Children: a torment and nothing more.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

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.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.