Quotes About Insecurity

It's so stupid," she added softly, "what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid." And she kept her head turned, as if I wasn't even there.

I know you've taken to wearing tour father's hand-me-down anger. But I wish that you wouldn't. It's a few sizes too big and everyone can see it doesn't fit you...

I know you've taken to wearing around your father's hand-me-down anger. But I wish that you wouldn't. It's a few sizes too big and everyone can see it doesn't fit you...

The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.

Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.

Ever after she lived alongside the knowledge that nothing on this earth could protect her completely.

What if she never made any friends and she spent her lunches hiding in the girls' bathroom trying not to turn into a bitten?

Shame is an odd emotion. It clings to things over which we have no control, like a scent.

It's pathetic to want to be liked by someone who has made it clear they don't like you.

I don't have a driver's license (phobia).

Maybe Dillon Samreen will decide to pick on this new kid with the weird name and the funny accent instead of me.

she had been surprised by a certain sponginess around her belly, her thighs, her hips, her upper arms. She didn't weigh much more — well, not too much — but it was as though what she did weigh had given up paying attention. Her flesh was not bothering to hold itself together anymore

Ela não tem amizade por mim. Nem ternura. Nem estima. Ela me ama, simplesmente: qual de nós dois é o pior?

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness.

The paltriness of these sexual struggles.

More of fear than of any other thing has been created.

His intellect would have been more effective if he had had an aggressive paranoid character, eager for power. He was jealous but not exceptionally competitive, not a true paranoiac.

There's this sense, you know: the impossibility of life, the provisional character and everything, the impossibility of finding anchorage, the insecurity, the hand to mouth existence, the terrible things that life does to you, and well, of course, growing is monotonous, so I try not to grow too much.

Cualquier tarugo miserable que no tiene nada en el mundo de lo que pueda sentirse orgulloso, recurre al último recurso, vanagloriarse de la nación a la que casualmente pertenece.

shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation.

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

Never have them, Reg. I swear, you're never free. You LOVE them too much. It's like a vital organ walked out of your body and is out there waving hi to people and you fear for it all day, EVERY day, because if something happened to it...

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.