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Self-Consciousness Quotes (page 2)

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. Stephen Fry
Mignon McLaughlin quote: "Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once..."
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. Mignon McLaughlin
I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting. Julian Barnes
When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that. Drew Barrymore
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations. Susan Sontag
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. Alan Watts
Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to... Naomi Wolf
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be..."
Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it. Stephenie Meyer
Ian Mcewan quote: "He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor..."
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. Ian Mcewan
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its... Sylvia Plath
Sue Grafton quote: "When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm..."
When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm crippled or ugly. I don't know how you do that, but it's nice. Sue Grafton
she must be seven-and-twenty now,-a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience Arthur Conan Doyle
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another. R. D. Laing
Noel Coward quote: "She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using..."
She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net. Noel Coward
But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘artificial.’ Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many dresses, many works of art are branded with artificiality because the exhibit vanity and self-consciousness: as if vanity were not a deep and elemental thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Vanity may be found in darkling deserts, in the hermit and in the wild beasts that crawl around... Gilbert K. Chesterton

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