Mark Haddon Quotes

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.

Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I'm not so certain in life.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

Don't know how much of an Alpha I am.

My confidence sort of comes and goes very quickly.

I'm pretty confident, I guess I would say.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.