quotes about never being anyone's first choice
Feeling like you’re never anyone’s first choice is a terrible feeling because it comes with negative emotions and feeling unlovable.
Your worth and value don’t depend on how others view you. There’s always someone out there that can love you how you deserve to be loved, though I know how hard it is to let go of toxic and addicting relationships, situationships, crushes, etc.
Read more: how to navigate not being someone’s first choice
It can feel so lonely and difficult to tell your friends and family about what you’re going through, especially when they don’t understand or are tired of hearing about it.
You’re not alone, and I hope you feel solace and comfort within these quotes about not being someone’s first choice and feeling unlovable.
Never anyone’s first choice quotes:
“I was never anyone's first priority. Never the one who had someone looking out for me. I was hoping having a mate would get me that. I'm sorry I was under that misconception. I'll do my best to leave you alone from now on.”
― Alyssa Brandon
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” ― Mark Twain
“We all choose to receive love and joy at the level of our self-love and self-esteem. So love yourself a little harder and life will get a lot better.”
— Karen Salmansohn
“All I had to offer were my skills as a doormat, a blank wall, someone desperate enough to do anything — just short of murder, let's say — simply to get someone to like me, let alone love me.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh
“It isn’t difficult to determine that someone doesn’t treasure you. It’s always there, popping out in every direction. It’s in the moments they don’t show up when they say they will, the times they don’t take a minute out of their days to let you know they won’t make it anymore.”
― Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou
“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”
― David Levithan
“If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are.”
― LK Hunsaker
“I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.”
― Ranata Suzuki
“You can’t nice your way to being loved.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Many people feel they don't have enough love. Feel unloved. Many people do not understand that the essence of love is giving and not demanding.”
― Titon Rahmawan
"Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.”
― Sophie Kinsella
“So often, we don’t see the beauty in ourselves. If we keep observing our reflection in the distorted mirrors of bad relationships, we start believing we are ugly and unlovable. And the flaws aren’t in how we look, but in whose eyes we’re seeing ourselves through.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“There's beauty in misery, sadness and things that are so unloved and forgotten.”
― Ghaleya Aldhafiri
“It doesn’t take an intellectual to figure out how unwanted you are. I feel the most challenging part is bearing just how someone holds so much power in their hands to make you feel as small and trivial as they possibly can.”
― Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali
“I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.”
― Iris Murdoch
“It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck
“I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love.”
― Michael D. O'Brien
