Quotes About Insecurity

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be 'out of there.'

INSTEAD OF DOUBTING SOMEONE ELSE'S LOVE FOR ME ... I decided to LOVE myself so much that it became irrelevant whether they did or not!

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

I'm always the one who doesn't have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, "So, is your friend, you know, with someone?" and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.

And you… do you know what you are?" "Stupid?" "Beautiful," he says, his face turning red.

I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn't all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend.

I will find him one, a beautiful little stupid girl, as dumb as the one at 623 Daisy Lane used to be and show her to him. He will want her, with her little limbs and happy face and solid, live flesh. She will become the new Alice and he will want her so much he will forget all about me. Kill me to teach her a lesson, probably, and then move on. Yes, that is what will happen. What must happen.

I have to wear jeans, dark and stiff and too small, cutting into my waist and leaving my ankles bare. My shirt is pink, pale like the first blush of hurt skin, just a little blow to let you know you are here, that you are not leaving. That you must open your eyes and see.

How could someone like me survive a plane crash? I didn't look like someone who could do that. I wasn't someone who could do that Maybe I hadn't Maybe I was dead. Maybe I was l was lying on the ground somewhere, rain falling over me, into my open eyes. I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't see anything. I didn't see me.

There is that constant judgment in this world: How are we going to make sure we do not feel inferior to another?

Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that's one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit—in Pam's mind—his own private condominium of coolness.

Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

I know faintly, even now, that I have embarrassed myself, and it always comes back to the feeling of childhood, that huge pieces of knowledge about the world were missing that can never be replaced.

Unspeakably frightened. It had unmoored him.

God, I'm scared,' he said, quietly. She almost said, 'Oh, stop. I hate scared people.

It had made me draw back just slightly inside myself. And I knew this was because I had always been afraid of giving off that odor myself.

I felt terrible, I have always been frightened of doing something wrong, of being inconsiderate; it is a real fear I have.

We buy things we do not need to impress people we do not like.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Es la duda la que mantiene joven a la gente. La certeza es como un virus maligno. Te contagia de vejez.

Siempre es usted así? - ¿Cómo es así? - sonrió Falcó. - Tan engreído. Tan seguro de sí mismo. Tan de todo. - Va por días. - ¿Y hoy es uno de esos días? La miró con cara de buen chico. Directo a los ojos. - Depende de usted.

La duda destruye más que las certezas.

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.