Low self esteem Quote by Edith Wharton

“Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition, greater steadiness…

— Jane Austen

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“she thought of all the years that had led up to this—all those seconds and minutes and hours, spent elsewhere, with others, doing other…

— Laura Barnett

“A part of her was immune to pain, numbed by humiliating experiences and hatred while the part that had known finer emotions, powerless to…

— Neetha Joseph

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen. Only a little true tenderness…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp…

— Milan Kundera

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

“For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.”

— Lacy Danes