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Melissa Broder Quotes

Total quotes: 34
“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
“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
“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
““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
“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
“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
“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
“You can have a terror of death and also be obssessed about your keratin treatment.”
— Melissa Broder, Control Freaks
Tagged: humor, LOL, Anxiety, Go Easy on Yourself, Depression
“The top of the ocean can be total chaos, but underneath, in the depths, there can be silence.”
— Melissa Broder, When A Woman and a Merman Fall in Love Aquatic Erotica Ensues
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, So Sad Today, The Ocean, Imagery
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 don't really know how to do things half-measures.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Loving Too Much, Too Much, BPD
“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
“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
“My feelings are never not hurt.”
— Melissa Broder
Tagged: Sensitive, Social Anxiety, Pride
“I am a superficial woman of depth.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: fake, shallow
“Let's pretend you are capable of being who I want you to be.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Fake Love
“I tell myself I know nothing about love so I can recover. I am recovering from a fantasy that I projected on a young man's body. He provided music and language and fingers and a face that moaned into my pussy. I am never going to recover from being that alive.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Stuck on Love, Heartache, Unrequited Love, Break Up
“Validation is my main bitch.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Validation, Social Anxiety, Self-Worth
“I never liked myself: a love story”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Validation, Social Anxiety, Self-Worth, I Hate Myself
“I get nervous in undefined spaces and tend to sexualize things.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, Nerves, awkward, Socially Awkward
“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of "losing it". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has no bottom to it and I will just keep falling under and under and under”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Anxiety, Lonely, Not Good Enough
“Good morning! Everything is shit! Time to act impulsively. But first let's start by getting into imaginary fights with people from the past. Next let's catalog everything that's wrong with you and your life. Also, I want to remind you of everything you don't have—and everything you should be scared of losing. Let's begin!”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, BPD, Overthinker, I Hate Myself
“Flee humanity. Get yourself to the nearest woods, desert, pond, river, lake, or field where there are very few people. If you live in a city and transportation out of the city is impossible, find an abandoned stairwell. Just sit there. Take in the glory of silence, of emptiness, the way there is no media fingerprint on anything. Feel yourself miss, and even crave, that media. Fight the urge to tweet about silence. Don’t Instagram the fucking trees. But have compassion for that instinct.”
— Melissa Broder, Don't Instagram the Fucking Trees: Advice from So Sad Today
Tagged: Addicted To Your Phone, Nature Lovers, Silence, Social Media Is Bad, Alone
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