Quotes About Insecurity

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?' 'None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Poor strangers, I said. They have so much to be afraid of.

You're lucky you won't ever be pretty. Harriet knew already that this would keep her heartsick for months, perhaps the rest of her life, and she said thickly, I'm losing weight right now. It isn't that you're so fat, Miss Tyler said critically. You just don't have the air of a pretty woman. All your life, for instance, you'll walk like you're fat, whether you are or not.

losing her temper, which she did rarely because she was so afraid of being ineffectual

don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

Luke's eyes were wild. He was a little taller than me, but not quite as heavy. A lot of girls liked him because he was good looking with dark wavy hair. Not many guys liked him because all he cared about was himself.

Whoever possesses something that is at once valuable and fragile is afraid of other people's envy, in so far as he projects on to them the envy he would have felt in their place.

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

En cuanto a las necesidades religiosas, considero irrefutable su derivación del desamparo infantil y de la nostalgia por el padre

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Con sólo temer a la mediocridad, ya se está a salvo: he aquí el consuelo que usted me ofrece. Mas yo le pregunto: ¿A salvo de qué? ¿No se estará a salvo en la certeza de no ser un mediocre? ¿Qué importa lo que uno teme o deja de temer? ¿Acaso lo más importante no es que las cosas sean efectivamente como tememos que sean?

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Nul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

any reproach made by my mother, and even her slightest frown was a threat to my security: without her approval, I no longer felt I had any right to live.

Cette impuissance physique se traduit par une timidité plus générale: elle ne croit pas á une force qu'elle n'a pas expérimentée dans son corps; elle n'ose pas entreprendrem se révolter, inventer: vouée à la docilité, à la résignation, elle ne peut qu'accepter dans la société une place toute faite.

I'm not jealous of your feelings for people. But I am jealous of people's feelings for you. [...] When you're there, I know quite well our love is the truest; but from afar I find it a burden to see you trailing round in the other hearts.

Jealousy is not contemptible real love has a beak and claws.

And sometimes I think myself sensible, and sometimes I accuse myself of cowardice. In fact I am defenseless because I have never supposed I had any rights. I expect a lot of the people I love - too much, perhaps. I expect a lot, and I even ask for it. But I do not know how to insist.

Avevo perduto la sicurezza dell'infanzia; in cambio non avevo guadagnato niente.

C'est en grande partie l'angoisse d'être femme qui ronge le corps féminin.