Quotes About Insecurity

All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.

She was too preoccupied about appearing young, I suppose, to care about anything else, her own part included.

El peor enemigo de la creatividad es dudar de una misma», decía Plath

Cuncta fessa. Que quiere decir: Todo el mundo está cansado. El cansancio ante la inseguridad política y social es lo que llevó a Roma a perder sus derechos y sus libertades. El miedo provoca hambre de autoritarismo en las personas. Es un pésimo consejero el miedo.

El miedo es un parásito, un invasor.

Tacitus explains it thus: Cuncta fessa. Which means 'the whole world is tired.' Weariness in the face of political and social insecurity is what led to Rome losing its rights and freedoms. Fear induces a hunger for authoritarianism in people. Fear is a really bad adviser.

Ah, la vanidad del escritor... Podemos llegar a ser una auténtica peste. Quizá sea por nuestra especial dependencia de la mirada ajena, o porque la falta de criterios objetivos a la hora de juzgar una novela hace que siempre nos sintamos un poco inseguros, siempre un poco en el aire; pero lo cierto es que la vanidad es, para nosotros, como una droga dura, un chute de reconocimiento exterior que, como toda droga, nunca sacia la necesidad de aprobación que padecemos.

Octavius Augustus became the first Roman emperor because the republic granted him enormous powers. And why did the republic do that? Why did it commit suicide to make way for an empire? Tacitus explains it thus: Cuncta fessa. Which means 'the whole world is tired.' Weariness in the face of political and social insecurity is what led to Rome losing its rights and freedoms. Fear induces a hunger for authoritarianism in people. Fear is a really bad adviser.

Uncertainty is always hell.

My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

Alala! I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people.

Jealousy? Is this, too, part of Onigumo's grubby heart?- Naraku

No puedo soportar que tu, de entre todo el mundo, me vea tan débil y patético.

Car, si je considérais l'homme surtout en termes psychologiques, Smith l'évaluait en termes sociaux et Terron en termes mythiques. Ce qui provoquait en moi une quête irritée de certitude, une insécurité qui me mettait nettement mal à l'aise.

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

Why was it that women could never work hard enough to quiet their nagging fear that they were not enough? That they were falling behind? That they could and should be better?

Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.

Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world.

Just as a physician might say that there is very likely not one single living human being who is completely healthy, so anyone who really knows mankind might say there is not one single living human being who does not…secretly harbor an unrest, an inner strife, a disharmony, an anxiety about an unknown something or something he does not even dare to try to know, an anxiety about some possibility in existence or an anxiety about himself…an anxiety he cannot explain.

He fears all worldly setback for there is nothing eternal in him.

What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.

Guilty secrets make paranoids of us all.