Burden Quote by Donna Tartt

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which…

— Julian Barnes

I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was…

— Kate Bornstein

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not…

— Kimberly Quinn

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that…

— Joseph O'Neill

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about…

— Virginia Williams

I was living in a place where I was harming myself. I was irresponsible. I'd lost several apartments. I couldn't hold a job. I…

— Bernie Mac

But now my problems had been set loose. They could be anywhere at any time and I was just like everyone else I knew:…

— Sloane Crosley

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me,…

— Mark Slouka

“I accepted all this counsel politely, with a glassy smile and a glaring sense of unreality. Many adults seemed to interpret this numbness as…

— Donna Tartt

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself;…

— Arthur Nersesian

I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less…

— A.M. Homes