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Quotes About Insecurity

He's hunted enough guys to know that their own heads can be their worst enemies. They start seeing things that aren't there, then, worse, not seeing things that are. They worry and worry, and chew on their own insides, until, when you do track them down, they're almost grateful. By this time, they've been killed so many times in their minds that the real thing is a relief.
~ Don Winslow
I don't know about this," Cirello says. "What you don't know?" "Like why here?" Cirello asks, looking around. "All this empty space. Parking lot, a construction site …" "You scared, white?" "I'm not white, I'm Greek," Cirello says. "You see that movie, 300? Those were Greeks." "Didn't show that at V-Ville. Too gay.
~ Don Winslow
Write about what you're afraid of.
~ Donald Barthelme
At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.
~ Donald L. Hicks
When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.
~ Unknown
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~ Jean Toomer
Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.
~ Carrie Fisher
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
~ Rajneesh
People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.
~ Lady Gaga
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
~ Alfred Adler
Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.
~ Alexander Lowen
I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.
~ Richard Gere
I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
~ David Niven
Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
~ Henning Mankell
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
~ Lars von Trier
With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
~ Peter Shepherd
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
~ Unknown
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
~ John Lennon
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
~ Robert Hughes
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!
~ Nick Cannon
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
~ Paul Simon