Quotes About Insecurity

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

we can't build our dreams, on suspicious minds

Mediocrity/inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. intense dislike/devaluation of oneself/yourself.

You shouldn't persuade anyone to love, like and appreciate you. For, there is a tendency he or she will devalue you.

I just hate feeling like there's some timeline trying to tell me when I have to get to each new step. It feels like everyone's taking the elevator up to some secret penthouse party, and I'm not even allowed to take a peek. And if everyone goes up before I do, will they lock the door?

But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

For it ends only to be replaced by fear

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

Feeble folk are as easily reassured as they are frightened.

Someone has said that Ethel Barrymore has the reticence born of assurance whereas my monologues indicate my insecurity. The point is moot. It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

No one understood, she thought, the horrible, insidious, snake-like fear which could run through one's body, sapping one's will to the point when one behaved foolishly simply because one could not think clearly.

But belonging to someone and giving yourself to them were two very different things. One formed out of need, a tidy arrangement mutually beneficial to both parties, while the other involved laying yourself bare—something she'd never been very good at.

All I could think about was Gemma kissing Liam, Liam kissing Gemma—and wondering why that image made my insides knot up.

Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?

I felt inadequate. In your dad's eyes, I was always that. This particular day, he made a snide remark when he was leaving for work, and I snapped—not at him, but inside me.

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

She turned and plunked herself down on the padded webbing. "He's a little awkward, a little tongue-tied around women, and a man that fit and good-looking without a girlfriend?

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

she felt incredibly fragile, which was not how she liked to feel.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.