Quotes About Insecurity

Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.

Of course, if we've learned anything, it's how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.)

All spies need to feel they are loved.

I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control her, and if I can control her it would make her boring and uninteresting… Dear god I hope I can never trust my wife…

she worried about whether I had the clothes and social skills to fit in.

Because buried in authoritarianism is always one deep flaw: its insecurity. If authoritarians had broad and deep support, they wouldn't require compulsion. The dirty secret of our woke authoritarians is that they are the minority. You are the majority.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

C?ci, cum e cu putin?? s? m? iubeasc? v?zând trupÅŸorul acesta m?runt, chipul de pas?re, obrazul plin de pistrui, gura lipsit? de farmec, nasul mare, p?rul sp?l?cit, toat? f?ptura mea, care nu-i bun? decât pentru ca toat? lumea s?-i dea un picior? Cine e Nela? Nimeni. Nela e ceva doar pentru orb.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

He that is conscious of a Stink in his Breeches, is jealous of every Wrinkle in another's Nose.

Vanity backbites more than Malice.

The proud hate pride – in others.

like any outsider, you cope, you try to copy to belong, you overcompensate for what you think you hear is the norm.

You know what your problem is? You're so convinced you're bad, it gets in the way of being good.

Can't you see that you're smothering me? Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control 'Cause everything that you thought I would be Has fallen apart right in front of you

You say that I'm paranoid But I'm pretty sure the world is out to get me

What was difficult to deal with was his permanent anxiety: when we were little, he was afraid we'd go and play outside or wander a bit too far away; later on, motorbikes and drugs were real nightmares for him. When he was angry, this was always due to anxiety, especially if we came home later than we'd said we would.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

Monsters can be scary, and they're great, but they're only really scary when they're reflections of us and they show you the things you're scared of might be true about your own nature.

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.