Quotes About Insecurity

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No hay nada más implacable y cruel que la envidia: y sin embargo, ¡nos esforzamos incesante y principalmente en suscitar envidia!

It may not be dying we fear so much, but the diminished self.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

On bad days the orange walls held hands and bent over him, inspecting him, like malevolent doctors, slowly, deliberately, squeezing the breath out of him and making him scream. Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance. That too made him cry out.

And for a moment—only a moment, mind you—I felt my confidence slip.

however, the doubts really set in.

She felt as if she were a helpless child.

But doubts nevertheless creep in.

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

KURT. Then he does love you! ALICE. Probably. But that doesn't stop him from hating me. KURT

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.

When you say, I need more confidence, what you're really saying is, I need those people over there to approve of me. That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

It wasn't like he was holding me so much as trying to hold onto something.

Normal people who weren't raised by mentally ill goats probably took the feeling of safety for granted. They only noticed when they suddenly felt unsafe. When the hands reach up for under the bed and grab their ankles, they scream, whereas I'm like "Wait, can you scratch my knee before you kill me?

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

If i wasn't an accident mustn't I be a crushing disappointment?

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

The prospect of being locked in my own, ugly mind terrifies me.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.