Quotes About Insecurity

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

Every fear is fear of death.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

What makes you think that you could ever write anything worth reading?" Voices like that sap your courage. They drain away your spirit. They make you want to run and hide, or lock a mask over your thoughts and feelings . . . and never, never, never write again. Don't listen to them.

Those with low self-esteem tend to have highly developed egos; they long to be Best at every Thing and valued highly by everyone they meget, and imavine their ego is repressed, weak and needs boosting

The heat brings to the surface all my weaknesses.

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.