Quotes About Insecurity

Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

the confidence of ten mediocre men.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.

This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only thing between them and a guillotine.

Roger is a powerful, confident, good-looking man kept awake at nights by the heart-gripping fear that other people don't think he is powerful, confident, and good-looking.

Why not?" He mocked himself for the morbid vigil he had spent in probing and vainly binding the wounds of his false pride.

I left off loving you when I found that you loved me. There is the premiss. Very well! Is it likely that I shall begin to love you again because you can't leave off loving me?

the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product

Terror is a powerful weapon. Terror clouds thought.

Why do I go there? Where's my, what do you call it, "ego-defense mechanism"?

Blinders als blind ist die Aengstlicher

At times he got on my nerves, like all artists who think themselves loftier or more profound beings simply because they don't know what electricity is.

As long as a person does not accept himself, he will always have this fear of being misunderstood and misconstrued by his environment;

I believe Ivy wanted me to hate myself and seduced me merely to make me hate myself, and that was her joy, to humiliate me, the only joy I could give her.

Manchmal ging er mir auf die Nerven wie alle Künstler, die sich für höhere oder tiefere Wesen halten, bloss weil sie nicht wissen, was Elektrizität ist.

Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.

God will do that for you. Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.

Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.