Quotes About Insecurity

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

You're scared of what you can't control

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

You keep life on a short leash." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're scared of what you can't control.

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Men were so violent, she complained. Why were men so violent? You had to be careful as a woman. You could get somebody's nose broken if you griped that they had pinched you or even looked at you funny. And of course that wasn't what you wanted; you just wanted to be left alone. Also, you knew that the mean son of a bitch that broke the poor jerk's nose was just getting his rocks off--didn't care about you personally.

It turned out that many women dropped out of Dr. Felitti's weight loss program because losing weight made them feel unbearably anxious and vulnerable. Their girth helped them to feel safe, beyond a man's desire to assault them. So, even though they knew that their obesity put them at risk for disease, they did not want to give up the protection they felt it afforded them.

worry results from a heightened sense of vulnerability in the presence of a diminished sense of power.