Quotes About Insecurity

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

because the most terrible emotional anguish known to humans is not knowing.

How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce's new owner built one of those mega service stations right next door? Or worse yet, right on top of them.

I think every fear you ever have, every one -- thunder or spiders or roller coasters -- they're all fear of dying. Every last one.

I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..

He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.

he dislikes me to have any pleasure but in himself, any shadow of homage or kindness but such as he chooses to vouchsafe: he knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Am I really so bad-mannered, conceited, headstrong, pushing, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as they all say? Oh, of course not. I have my faults, just like everyone else, I kniw that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.

Escrever um diário é uma experiência realmente estranha para uma pessoa como eu. Não só porque nunca escrevi nada antes, mas também porque me parece que, mais tarde, nem eu nem ninguém estará interessado nos devaneios de uma rapariga de treze anos.