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48 Painfully Relatable Melissa Broder Quotes

Sade Andria Zabala
November 5, 2017
“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
“my signature scent is anxiety”
— Melissa Broder
Tagged: Anxiety, joke
“I fear others will discover that I am not only imperfect; I’m not even okay. I fear that I truly am not okay. But most people who meet me never know that I am struggling. On the outside I am smiling. I am juggling all the balls of okayness: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, existential. Underneath, I am suffocating.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Social Anxiety, Mental Illness, Okayness, imperfect
“But he liked me. There was definitely something wrong with him.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Anxiety, Crush, I Hate Myself
“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
“Text me back: a love story”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Validation, Social Anxiety, Self-Worth
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Existing, Existence, I Hate Life, Parenthood, Bad Parents, Purpose of Life, Meaning Of Life
“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
“I am a superficial woman of depth.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: fake, shallow
“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
“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
““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
“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
“That's not the clitoris: a love story.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: LOL, Sex, Bad Sex
“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
“Let's pretend you are capable of being who I want you to be.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Fake Love
“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
“We're all awful in our own special ways.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Life Sucks, Bad People, Uniqueness, imperfect