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Quotes About Insecurity

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
~ David Brooks
I used to sing when I was younger. I left it alone for a long time, 'cause I was like, I don't even know if I know how to sing for real.
~ Dreezy
What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
~ Ian MacKaye
Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.
~ Joan Rivers
I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
~ Magda Apanowicz
When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.
~ Meryl Streep
As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
~ Sam Riley
I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.
~ Shane McCrae
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
~ Victor Cruz
I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.
~ Colleen Saidman
I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
~ Cynthia Nixon
I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
~ Cynthia Nixon
It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Oh, yeah, the feather dusters!" Luke exclaimed. "I'd almost forgotten about that. Now, why in the world were you so scared of them? You didn't really think they could come back to life, did you?" Smits fixed Luke with a curious look. "Yes," he said. "I did. I didn't know what death was.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
he's a man who must make love a lot, a man who's afraid, he must make love a lot to fight against the fear.
~ Marguerite Duras
I was afraid of myself, afraid of God.
~ Marguerite Duras
The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.
~ Marian Keyes
So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.
~ Marian Keyes
My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I hadn't a job. I hadn't any qualifications. I'd achieved nothing with my life. I'd never been happy. I had no husband or boyfriend.
~ Marian Keyes
Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I'm forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there's no way I'd reveal this elderly body to a new man. It'd be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years.
~ Marian Keyes
I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.
~ Marian Keyes
You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
~ Marian Keyes
Hamstrung as I am with shortness and a tendency to roundness, which I need to watch like a hawk, I certainly don't look the part.
~ Marian Keyes
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us...There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
~ Marianne Williamson