Quotes About Insecurity

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

Well, I mean I have forgotten how to go anywhere alone. There are things you have to do. Like throw money into a toll basket on a highway. I'd pull up to it now and panic. Or what if I had to hail a cab? It's hard to believe, but I used to be able to do things when I was twenty that are impossible now [...] It's more than the physical task. It's ...a vision of yourself. If you don't see yourself as being able to do it, then you can't, no matter how easy it is.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and

some of the brightest kids prove to be the most vulnerable to becoming helpless, because they feel the need to live up to and maintain a perfectionist image that is easily and inevitably shattered.

His success was due in part to his ability to spread his own paranoia, the fear that there was always somebody about to attack.

Intelligent people are not always guided by their intelligence.Sometimes fear is a little more powerful.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

Panic isn't the fear of danger, but the fear you can't control your fear, and

You," she said, "are the ugliest man I ever saw." Sadly, the man answered, "Perhaps so, but I can't help that." "No," the woman allowed, "but you might stay at home.

Yet he was still shaken by fading echoes of his fear that she might flee. Losing her would be very . . . personal.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

I can't fight this feeling any longer And yet I'm still afraid to let it flow What started out as friendship, has grown stronger I only wish I had the strength to let it show I tell myself that I can't hold out forever I said there is no reason for my fear Cause I feel so secure when we're together You give my life direction You make everything so clear

Deprive a child of parental approval, and they'll spend their lives trying to get it. And the sad, undeniable fact is that I spent most of my formative years just trying to get my parents' attention, let alone their approval. The more they withheld it, the greater my attempts to attain it.

This was the terrible part of being a parent. The more you loved, the more you had to lose. It might as well be your own heart the pitcher was firing off toward the plate, hovering out in midair, ready for some bat to smash into it. Once you had a child you were never safe again.

A woman's heart is much stronger than a man's. They are weak creatures, dear. Weak, and often far more insecure than they present on the outside. Trust your love, child. The rest will follow.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Siempre tuve miedo de dormir antes que ella, sin saber la causa. Aun adorándola, era algo así como dar la espalda a un enemigo. No podía soportar la idea de dormirme y dejarla a ella en la sombra, lúcida, absolutamente libre, viva aún

Las personas realmente inteligentes dudan sobre todo y sobre todos, pero por encima de todo dudan de ellos mismos.

Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

But Reason's voice could not always be heard above the clamour of self-doubt

Caroline listened to herself with rising mortification: if it were possible to blabber worse nonsense, she could not see how

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.