Quotes About Insecurity

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

I wasn't super-cool in high school.

In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.

In high school, I never felt in with the in-crowd.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I didn't feel attractive in high school.

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I was so nervous competing against Lyneshia Sparx. She's so gorgeous, and she's hilarious. When you get to know her, she's the most lovely person.

I did not have a car in high school and neither did Angelina. Try to imagine. You go to Beverly Hills High, one of the wealthiest high schools in the nation. Even the cheapest car that anyone has is brand new. All my friends are well off. I have a movie-star father and no car. It was debilitating.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Luke Skywalker was twice the age of the ten-year-old vaporator, but much less secure.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.

Because we easily imagine ourselves in want, we imagine God ready to forsake us.

The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol.

But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have lost it, remaining, even after the very traces of it have vanished, as greedy as ever of admiration.

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.