Self Deprecation Quotes

“People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1967-1968

“I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?”
― John Ringo, When the Devil Dances

“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.”
― Marian Keyes, The Break

“Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward

“She was named Jocaminca fforkes, with two small 'f's - as if having two 'f's wasn't pretentious enough”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one drop of joy. But oh god was it delicious when it fell into her lap for a little while. (Such a pretty face) she muses (with such a bruised and battered soul). When the dawn of a promise fades into the dusk of reality, all that remains is the nightmare. Sweet, sweet loneliness. Shadows come to play and prey on her beaten mind. Her lovely little dreams of poison.”
― Solange nicole, Dreams of Poison

“There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Sometimes I just forget how to "people.”
― J.E. Birk, Booklover

“Why do people assume I know more than I do? I’m an idiot about most things.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usually I am in transit, speeding in my Jeep until my lungs give out. Today, I'm driving ninety-five down 95. I weave in and out of traffic, sewing up a scar. People yell at me behind their closed windows. I give them the finger.

It would solve a thousand problems if I rolled the Jeep over an embankment. It's not like I haven't thought about it, you know. On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive--the sum of the parts equals more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.”
― Patrick O'Brian

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.”
― Charlie Brooker

“Damn damn damn.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder

“He presses my hand and he says he loves me,
Which I find an admirable peculiarity.”
― W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse

“If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“there are so many things wrong with me, so many cracks in my foundation, that patching one will hardly help with the stability of the whole. One less corner where the cold seeps in doesn’t matter when the roof still needs fixing and the doors don’t sit right in their frames and why bother with one crack when the whole house is falling down around you? I’ll spend my whole life trying to repair myself and still die a broken person. It sounds exhausting.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“One day, she told me her favorite color was green. Do you know how much green I see in a day? Enough to remember any other color ain’t her favorite. Green. That’s a whole lifetime with a girl whose face emerges on leaves, tennis courts, the billboard on every nearest passion pit, the emerald fabric of my curtains, hotel salads, on a crumpled Washington, and the two forest eyes of my own that look back at me in the mirror and say, “Diana #1, Diana #2.” Ain’t that a bite. One day, I will lay outside to daydream about her for so long, fungi will grow on my pathetic body, plaguing me with her favorite color. Will she love my algae then?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“... there are so many things wrong with me, so many cracks in my foundation, that patching one will hardly help with the stability of the whole. One less corner where the cold seeps in doesn’t matter when the roof still needs fixing and the doors don’t sit right in their frames and why bother with one crack when the whole house is falling down around you? I’ll spend my whole life trying to repair myself and still die a broken person. It sounds exhausting.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".”
― Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

“Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“I sometimes think that what civilized serenity the British people possess, and small but real ability to smile at themselves, is chiefly due to their good luck in having had William Shakespeare born one of their company.”
― Fritz Leiber, Four Ghosts in Hamlet