Quotes About Insecurity

you showed me who I truly am. You did not remove my doubts. You forced me to see how I waver.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?

Does she know I feel immobile and fixed, lost in her?

It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should not always read the books blessed by the majority.

The enormous difference between the relationships you need, and the one you deeply want. The need is created out of an accumulation of negativities, planted by traumatic experiences: fear, doubts, anxiety, dependence, weakness in certain realms, inadequacy, incompleteness. A certain relationship can remove the fear, calm anxiety, supply a certain completion, replace a loss, fulfill an organic insufficiency, lull an insecurity, supply a substitute love.

Doubt tortures me. There is a twist in me, my fear of interpretation.

Rebellions of all kinds attract to their activities weaklings who rebel because they cannot master, destroy because they cannot create.

Worlds self-made and self-nourished are so full of ghosts and monsters.

For what always creates anxiety in me is the doubt of my own sanity. I always question myself: am I being over-sensitive, am I exaggerating?

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

is a difference between being open to constructive criticism and letting jealous strangers say cruel things to you that make you feel bad about yourself. As

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority.

But Truman Capote wasn't interested in humanizing Gloria Vanderbilt, even while he floated in her majestic swimming pool. Instead, he wanted to resent her.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Oh, I thought, without a doubt, everything in my life is falling to pieces. Nothing that my hand grasps can my hand hold.

I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't like what I saw.

La peur du ridicule obtient de nous les pires lâchetés

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

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But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.