Quotes About Insecurity

Is that wrong? I don't even know anymore.

I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.

He'd described himself as looking like a child molester waiting for a chance to strike. He wasn't comfortable with his appearance.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He's done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.

Rome did not so much fall as collapse under its own weight. Germanic migrations, a corrupt and ineffectual government, insecurity within the borders, a breakdown of trade, and an economy built on slavery when the end of territorial expansion shut down new sources of slaves — all combined to destabilize Roman society. Add to that a colder and wetter climate that made it more difficult to grow crops, and this spelled disaster for at least the western, Latin-speaking half of the Empire.

These young men always moved in a pack, or never without two or three. They needed the others continually near to verify their existence.

That was when I started to worry about what was going to happen to me.

I lost that feeling of belonging to something wonderful.

Carl Jung explained that we tend to attack in others what we are most uncomfortable with in ourselves. When vulnerability is the enemy, it is attacked wherever it is perceived, even in a best friend.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

When a friend succeeds a little something inside me dies.

Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.

Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

I had come into this affair with my eyes open, knowing that one day this must end, and yet, when the sense of insecurity, the logical belief in the hopeless future descended like melancholia, I would badger her and badger her, as though I wanted to bring the future in now at the door, an unwanted and premature guest.

Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.