The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
BEATRICE SPARKSI’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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I can’t believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it’s only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.
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Even my parents treat me like I’m stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus “Not me! I didn’t think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.
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I’m partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing.
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I pretend I’ve got lots of confidence and I’m a big jock and like that but deep inside I’m a frightened, insecure, can’t-make-it failure.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!
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