Quotes About Insecurity

connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me.

I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.

How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?

Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

They didn't take anything I did seriously; it was all some trivial, mildly annoying side activity that I insisted on for some reason, having nothing to do with real life. I couldn't challenge or contradict this view, even to myself, because I really didn't know how to do anything real. I didn't know how to move to a new city, or have sex, or have a real job, or make someone fall in love with me, or do any kind of study that wasn't a self-improvement project.

Please don't leave me all alone." Was that what I, too was afraid of? And maybe not just me, but everyone?

She must have been jealous," Zita said. "Of course, I hope she feels more secure now. I've moved on. I have a new boyfriend. I'm happy now." "That's great," I said, recognizing the rule that, once you had a new boyfriend, you were happy.

Life, especially in relation to other women, would always be a competition, one she would rarely win.

Narcissists are bound to feel that their own death is the end of everything that really matters.

Everybody always leaves me in the end, don't you know that? I tell you all the time. You will too. How can anybody love me when I can't even love myself? I take the people that I love the most and I hurt them the most. I am so scared you will leave that I want to give you a reason to leave me. It is impossible to love me enough.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

I had an ex like that. Wasn't happy unless my head was full of her words.

Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

La humanidad posee cuatro cosas que no son útiles en el mar: Timones, anclas, remos y el temor de hundirse.

Observed by others, he was afraid they might discover his inner lack of substance, detect his discomfort behind his smile or the fear that had gradually become his natural state.

No me deje en manos de personas llenas de certezas, son gente terrible

A person often saying 'I love you all' to the people is just ensuring and assuring merely oneself each time that s/he is being liked by all as much as s/he loves only oneself.

A person who is an utter selfish has an irresistible wish to get the praise always only on own face from the people and in an event of not getting such appreciation any day, s/he feels asphyxiation.

A person who is not comfortable in own skin is only seen often hanging around with too many people.

A person who loves to have sycophants people around oneself is one who is worse than them only.

A person who often shares own photo through social media and writes on the post that s/he is abundantly blessed is actually more stressed than others and craving to be praised for own looks only.