Quotes About Insecurity

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you . It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Satria hidup dari ketakutan dunia, maka ia terus juga takut-takuti dunia.

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

Great mansions have slippery doors.

Rich people never know who their friends are.

Alabama's so scared she pees on herself.

Whom they fear they hate.

When a nation starts to hug its own particularities to itself it is showing fear and it will soon cease having any characteristics worth saving.

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

But I wasn't feeling like a winner. I felt like an ugly freak.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

I have my writers' neuroses but not their talents.

I'm a failed narcissist.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Those who own much have much to fear.

The lad himself becomes painfully self-conscious. When he talks with elderly people he is either unduly forward, or else so unduly shy that he appears ashamed of his very existence.

greed of material prosperity, and consequent mutual jealousy, and by the fear of each other's growth into powerfulness.

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made: to believe, in other words, that you yourself exist.

You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in every part of you, even as it fells your enemies and crowns you the winner.