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Melissa Broder Quotes

Total quotes: 52
“When you have low self-esteem, to be embraced at your most vile is a marvel.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Growing Up Shy, I Hate Myself, Self-Esteem, Unconditional Love, Social Anxiety
“Even in my dreams, I knew we weren't right for each other.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Toxic Relationship, Not Meant To Be Together
“That's not the clitoris: a love story.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: LOL, Sex, Bad Sex
“To receive compassion means I am weak. And I am terrified of being weak.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Weakness, vulnerability, Scared To Love, Defense Mechanisms
“it is very easy to tell me you love me when it is over and you are thousands of miles away... could you love me at your front door? i don't think you could.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Break Up, Heartbreak, Not Meant To Be Together, LDR, What If
“Is anything more bullshit, kale-eating, juice-fasting contemporary American than the notion of self-love? "Be gentle with yourself, you deserve it." Do I really?”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: I Hate Myself, BPD, Imposter Syndrome
“Is it worth being so talented if you also have to suffer from a profound sensitivity that is intrinsically connected to your gifts?”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Artist, Creativity
“My fear among people is that I will be judged for revealing what is going on inside me. I fear others will discover that I am not only imperfect; I'm not even okay. I fear that I truly am not okay.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, BPD, Mental Illness, Depression
“When you’re lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Lonely, hungry for love, Addiction
“Imagining that you are going to come back to me is my favorite way to spend the day.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Not Over You, Unrequited Love, I Miss You, Heartache
“Inner space is the one place on Earth that’s actually your own. It’s where we can have an infinite quantity of something (nothingness) that won’t hurt us. It’s where we get to be truly free.”
— Melissa Broder, Don't Instagram the Fucking Trees: Advice from So Sad Today
Tagged: Alone, Inner Peace, meditation
“Like, what if you found out I am really not okay? What if you knew that I am suffering a lot right now and really scared? Would you flee? I don't want to find out.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, BPD, Mental Illness, Depression
“What can we hope for in a marriage but to keep seeing things anew? With the people we love, it is so easy to stop seeing them at all.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Marriage, Love Advice
“It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, "Yo, what the fuck?"”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Anxiety, alive
““I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people’s struggles and yet it still hurts.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Depression, First world problems, Lonely
“Death is fine, but dying itself - the inability to breathe, the final panic attack - is really scary.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Death, Dying, Anxiety
“When I am with you, I feel an extraordinary sense of hope... like I have been in the dark for a long time, and did not realize it until the light came on. ”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Literary Sext, Hopeful, In love, The One, Romantic
“I said "I'm in love with you" or "I love you". I don't remember which. He said it back. I don't remember which.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Fake Love
“I am a puppy for attention from imaginary people. I am lonely among real human beings and would rather be on my phone than engage with reality.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, Attention, Validation, Internet Addict, Social Media, Loner, I Hate People
“You're so beautiful, I want to throw a land mine into a wall of cinderblocks and paint your lips with the dust cloud.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Literary Sext
“There aren't that many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Comfort, Life, Darkness, Acceptance
“How much mental illness is "acceptable", and how much is going to be "too much"?”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Mental Illness, Stigma, Society
“I would rather be on the Internet engaging with half-imaginary people in a fake way than in real life engaging with real people in a real way.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, Attention, Validation, Internet Addict, Social Media, Loner, I Hate People
“Don’t let our society’s focus on selling you happiness make you feel like there is something wrong with you.”
— Melissa Broder, Don't Instagram the Fucking Trees: Advice from So Sad Today
Tagged: Consumerism, Pursuit of Happiness, Important
“If people never become real, it's harder for them to disappoint you. That's why the internet is good for sad people. You can be with people without having to be with people.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, Internet Addict, Social Media, Loner, I Hate People
“I feel that the gum creates a barrier to intimacy between me and other people. It's never just me and another person. It's me, another person, and the gum.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety
“What I wanted was both my husband as well as a harem of boys who were totally devoted to me, at my beck and call at all times.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Commitment Issues
“You are scared of containing multitudes. Why does it have to be all or nothing? Why are you just straight up good or straight up evil? What if you're a lovable douchebag? What if you are a heavenly asshole? What if you are a destructive beautiful person?”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: BPD, Identity, Complicated People, Deep
“We were in a constant state of longing - almost touching.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Crush, Almost Lover, LDR, I Miss You
“Does anyone really know who they are marrying? People change. We do not know if the person we commit to will be the same person in ten years. We do not know who they will become. Will you be the same person in ten years: in health, body, money, interests, mental health?”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Marriage, Change, Afraid Of Love, Growing Old, Commitment Issues
“I don't want to be older and wiser. I want to be younger and hotter.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: beauty, Ageism, Growing Pains
“I'm trying to quit getting high on people.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Obsession, BPD, Afraid To Love
“my signature scent is anxiety”
— Melissa Broder
Tagged: Anxiety, joke
“Where did I learn that to look old as a woman is bad?”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Growing Pains, Growing Old, Ageism, Vanity
“But he liked me. There was definitely something wrong with him.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Anxiety, Crush, I Hate Myself
“Text me back: a love story”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Validation, Social Anxiety, Self-Worth
“I don't really know how to do things half-measures.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Loving Too Much, Too Much, BPD
“We're all awful in our own special ways.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Life Sucks, Bad People, Uniqueness, imperfect
“Is fake love better than real love? Real love is responsibility, compromise, selflessness, being present, and all that shit. Fake love is magic, excitement, false hope, infatuation, and getting high of the potential that another person is going to save you from yourself.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Love, Crush, Infatuation, True Love, puppy love, Afraid To Love
“Validation is my main bitch.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Validation, Social Anxiety, Self-Worth
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