Quotes About Insecurity

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.

If she'd learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.

All violence here is born of fear.

in the absence of political order, human life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she was six years old. That was in a small town in Bangladesh. Thus, even today, she hesitates superstitiously before crossing the road, and is painfully shy of walking distances. Her fears make her laughable. The scar is printed on her skin like a radiant star.

try hard not to say things like this, but every once in a while my need to prove a point, such a base and unattractive need, rises up and I meet it by telling him things that he doesn't need to hear.

For most Americans, especially now, striving and insecurity are likely to be rewarded with more striving and insecurity; you can do everything right and still have little to show for it.

I am the kid who sticks her finger in the light socket. I am the person who doesn't check the expiration date on the milk. I am the idiot who has never looked before she leaped. I am the girl who is falling apart, right now.

She's not a straight-A student, but she's also not stupid. She just thinks she is, which sucks in ways that make me want to do horrible, vile things to whoever made her feel that way.

I'm always the Skinny Girl, the one with no athletic talents, the girl who doesn't try hard enough, the girl who apparently never eats enough.

Bi," Tom interrupted as if it were crucial he retain some kind of toehold on heterosexuality, then flinched.

Sometimes I wonder if that's the thing that will break us in the long run. That it's so hard for you to trust in us.

I was terrified of my weakness, of my sharp tongue, of my every flaw. I was terrified that this moment, my chance to live in happiness for however short a time we may have had, would be ruined because I was simply not carved out of the same wood as happiness, and that my grain was too twisted to ever take its form.

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

Era la giovinezza? Era mai stato così sicuro di sè, anche quando era giovane? Era stato l'essere ferito a fargli desiderare di arrotolarsi in una palla di protezione e dire al mondo di lasciarlo in pace

You do like me, don't you? Even though I'm apparently communicatively handicapped and socially retarded?

I can't need you, boy. What happens when you leave?

Dane sucked in a breath. "Jesus, Carpenter. I was going to be all bitchy and jealous and you had to pull emotional honesty on me. What kind of asshole are you?

This sadness, this discomfort—this wasn't the judgment of someone who didn't want to join the party. This was the judgment of someone who'd assumed the party wasn't for them.

Oh Galen—I've never been anybody's first choice. There's no reason for that to start now.

Good. He won' thee me." Craw made a hurt sound. "Don't worry about Aiden seeing you, okay? He's always seen you." "When I wath preddy.

called you fat because I knew other lovers had done so, and it was easy to drive you away. I didn't believe it. I've never believed it. I've never even thought it. Everything else I said, it was to push you away. I know you know that—but you need to believe it. I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.

How was it this kid walked this earth like he was a part of it, and Jeremy had only ever felt like a flea on its back? There had to be a flaw, Jeremy

Because I'm supposed to be straight. I can't be gay, or stupid, or a failure. I can't. If I'm gay or stupid or a fuck-up, that means she left me and not him!