Quotes About Insecurity

They may alternate between an extremely dependent posture on one hand, and an authoritarian stance when they are in the parental mode.

This type of parent causes the child to become unsure of the ability to think and perceive correctly and ultimately causes the son or daughter to develop symptoms of psychological illness.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

If one function of low self-esteem is to keep high-status people satisfied with your deference, then its level, strictly speaking, should depend on how much deference it takes to do that; you may, in the presence of someone powerful, feel a deeper humility—about your intelligence, for example—than an objective observer would see as warranted.

We wouldn't spend so much time worrying about what other people think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Zas!, perdió... pero lo notable es que estaba asustado de la suerte que había tenido... él mismo hasta entonces había tenido una relativa confianza en su martingala...

I began to tremble and he noticed. Why do I have to like the worst ones? I thought, why do I have to be attracted to the most brooding, least cultured, most desperate ones? It's a question I ask myself twice a year. I still haven't found an answer.

I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Clare," he said, his voice thicker with desire. He made himself concentrate on the road, on driving, though his peripheral vision showed her breasts rising faster. "Yes?" she asked, quiet, more vulnerable. That vulnerability called out to him now more than ever before . . . because he knew he was flawed so badly. "I like you." Hell, that sounded dumb.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

If ever you make it so they don't need you, they will kill you.

Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

He was stupid, stupid, stupid, and his only hope of surviving was in not letting anyone else know how stupid he was.

One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

What sort of person would cling to the hope that someone else would return to give meaning to her life? What sort of quivering parasite needed someone else to validate her existence?

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themsleves.

Many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.