Quotes About Insecurity

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me?a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun. We are ugly.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity! – Isaac Asimov

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both.

The trouble with this country is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

Do you have a particularly small penis, sir? Is that why you feel the need to compensate for your inadequacies with this behavior? If so, let me assure you, it didn't work. You still have a very small penis, and now you look like an idiot, too." De

I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see," said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. "That's true," she said. "But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.

This girl - this thin, cold child in a hand-me-down cardigan and faded dress - hated me, not for anything I was or had done, but because I existed, in her world, and she didn't want me there.

Fear is a man's best friend.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong anywhere but in his own bedroom.

Mrs. Abernathy frightened him, the way strong women will often frighten weak men.

And you?" said Roland. "You're only a boy. You don't belong here. Aren't you frightened?

You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.