Janis Joplin Quotes

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

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

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

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.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

I'm really insecure about everything.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

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

If you knew the real me, you'd want to keep your distance from me. Seriously.

I never thought I was doing any great work. I never thought I would last. In the beginning, I was terrible. I never used to speak to people. I used to start crying. I was extra sensitive. I would run away home and feel miserable. I didn't know how to behave then. I was touchy. People interpreted it as arrogance.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

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.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb...

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.