Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Feeling inadequate has always been my biggest problem.”

— David Ritz

“She hadn’t thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood.…

— Nora Roberts

“I didn’t feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but…

— Victoria Leatham

“And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.”

— Sara Baume

“The hopelessness of everything I was trying to occupy myself with was at last glaringly crystal clear. But”

— Claire-Louise Bennett

“Here was someone who lacked for nothing. I couldn’t understand this feeling. I envied him.”

— André Aciman

“I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary…

— Gretchen Rubin

“I felt exhausted, and worried, and friendless and hopeless and everything-else-less.”

— Philip Pullman

“I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were…

— Charles Bukowski

“Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

— Lev Grossman

“If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone.”

— Anne Sexton

“But it was too much. All of it was too much. I didn't know what I was feeling, but I knew I needed some…

— Jennifer Brown