Alex Ebert Quotes

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I'm very insecure.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

Everyone fears rejection.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I was painfully shy as a child.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

I can't even talk to someone and make eye contact.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I suffer from anxiety.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.

Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.