Alain de Botton Quotes

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.

I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an actress is expected to be.

A lot of beautiful women that I have come across are the most insecure.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

I have had the fortune of seeing very glamorous and beautiful woman close up and I have seen their fears and insecurity.

I don't actually get that many DMs. I tell myself that it's because guys might be intimidated, but I'm not that sure.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'

I'm not that good looking.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

Everyone fears rejection.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.