Quotes About Insecurity

Ming can't figure out how Dagou has attracted the devotion of a woman like Katherine Corcoran. Too smart for him, too attractive, too accomplished, and too good. Too much of a good thing, and Dagou unable to avoid fucking it up.

Because self-hatred is as galvanizing as ambition.

He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn't know.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities. You don't. It's no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time.

He didn't like it that there were men who could scare him so badly that he was even afraid to take a shit.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities.

That was what I feared most: that he just wasn't excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn't sleep facing me anymore, or the way he'd stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.

A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always be there for me - as much it was exactly what another part of me wanted.

He never understood that I wasn't scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.

He never understood that I wasn't scared of someone leaving me. I was scared the wrong person would stay.

He never understood that I wasn't scared of some one leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.

I wasn't scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.

I wasn't scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.

It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.