Quotes About Insecurity

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

You don't know what it's like to have to hide all the time.

It seems your problem is the same one we all have. You don't know if you are truly loved.

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.

Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Dije que sí, aunque sin convicción. Qué cobarde me sentí. Y poco tiempo después, cuántas cosas aprendí a decir y a silenciar, aunque no coincidieran con mis sentimientos. En aquellos momentos aún no habia salido de mi timida inocencia.

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

He was forceful, domineering, and supremely sure of himself. When you have low self-esteem, as I did, those qualities are attractive.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Kafam?za yerle?en ku?kular zincirleme may?n çukurlar? gibi patlar ve bir a?k? ancak art arda gelen patlamalarla y?kabilir

Quel che rende speciale qualcosa non è quel che si vince, ma quel che senti di poter perdere.

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable—like I'm about to cry any second—and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

Peyton had been considering little else since leaving Winchester. He hated the thought of his arrangement with Carrie ending. He couldn't imagine her going off on her own, unprotected and vulnerable. What's more, the idea of another man holding Carrie in his arms, kissing her … Peyton felt a vein begin to throb in his neck. Unacceptable!

Non mi sembra affatto di essere meglio degli altri: è l'idea di vedere i miei difetti moltiplicarsi per centinaia di volte che accentua la mia insofferenza e la riflette tutto intorno.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

I don't know how to act around anybody.

I can't help but wonder...if it's such a big deal for a middle-aged white guy to feel important...What happens when he doesn't?

I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot.

I am an excellent driver. In my mind. When nobody's watching. I could drive circles around you. And even East Los Viva. However, there is the small issue that in the human realm, when I am driving an actual vehicle, which is rare, and there is someone in the passenger seat, which is even rarer - I have a tendency to get nervous. And a bit neurotic. Okay, fine, let's just face it. I am a terrible driver.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he's worth something. And if I know for sure that I'm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.