Quotes About Insecurity

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did...To Mr Phillips, the fact of others' indifference has never brought any comfort.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

el disfrute de bienes en ese estado es muy inestable, en zozobra. Ello le hace desear el abandono de una condición que, aunque libre, llena está de temores y continuados peligros; y no sin razón busca y se une en sociedad con otros ya reunidos, o afanosos de hacerlo para esa mutua preservación de sus vidas, libertades y haciendas, a que doy el nombre general de propiedad.

I do get depressed when I think how people are going to see my pictures. If they're going to be unkind... Selling a picture is like sending a blind child into a room full of razor blades. It's going to get hurt and it's never been hurt before, it doesn't know what hurt is.?

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

I used to think heroes were brave and strong but the last look on Robyn's fave was not brave or strong, it was scared and unsure.

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world. Instead I had Hell.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.

If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer.

Dread clenched my stomach. I liked that I had won a contest and that they had thought I was a boy, and I was glad about the fifty dollars. But I didn't want my story to be published, or to read from it. I didn't want anyone to think I thought it was good.

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 just a self-improvement project.

I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.

Electra is a small person who steps on others to make herself feel big

Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.

Fear comes from ego; it's not a soul-level thing. And there's a lot of reasons for humans to have fear: a fear of not being good enough, a fear of not being able to do something well. Fear helps to develop ego, and ego helps to develop fear. They go in a circle. Fear usually is an absence of connection to spirit—not

Dieser letzte Satz war einer, von dem man sich vorstellen kann, daß Randall Jarrell ihn ausschnitt und als Schutz gegen die Unzahl der ungebildeten Alleswisser dieser Welt in seine Brieftasche steckte.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

She reminded me of the girls I'd grown up with. Spoiled, undeniably pretty girls who tirelessly solicited compliments by claiming to be disgusted by their looks (too fat, too thin), who'd beg you to order nachos or fries to share! and then, claiming loss of appetite, sit and stare at you while you ate like they were watching porn. Who one day are your best friends and the next the agents of your destruction.

To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.

How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?

Whatever confidence came to her when she gripped a knife didn't serve her here.