Quotes About Insecurity

Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.

My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my own doubt.

Il en voulait à Emma de cette victoire permanente. Il s'efforçait même à ne pas la chérir; puis, au craquement de ses bottines, il se sentait lâche, comme les ivrognes à la vue des liqueurs fortes.

Doute. Pire que la négation.

Elle ne demandait qu'à s'appuyer sur quelque chose plus solide que l'amour.

je ne serai jamais qu'un écrivailleur honni, un vaniteux misérable. // l shall never be anything but a despised scribbler, a poor conceited fool.

Charles, del resto, non era di quelli che scendono al fondo delle cose; arretrò davanti alle prove, e la sua gelosia incerta si smarrì nell'immensità del suo dolore.

For the same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force.

No tengo miedo a la soledad. La gente es infinitamente más peligrosa.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. - H.L. Mencken

They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.

el encaprichamiento se crece con las críticas.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

I'm an extremely wealthy man. I own the sky. I have invested all my capital in the sun. I'm not bad-tempered, as you seem to imagine, nor do I bear grudges. But like all wealthy men, I'm a little frightened of losing my fortune.

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.

Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are. But really the problem is in convincing yourself.

The danger of exchanging the necessary insecurity of philosophical thought for the total explanation of an ideology and its [worldview], is not even so much the risk of falling for some usually vulgar, always uncritical assumption as of exchanging the freedom inherent in man's capacity to think for the straight-jacket of logic with which man can force himself almost as violently as he is forced by some outside power.

we saw that what makes love, defined as desire, unbearable is the constant fear—that must accompany love—of losing its object.

He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences

Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.

Guys who lack confidence in so many ways still manage to delude themselves into thinking they are irresistible to all women.

Roger was a skinny kid. His arms were reeds with absolutely no definition. He did not look up as she spoke.