Quotes About Insecurity

It wasn't that I actually was fat or anything, it was just that I wasn't supposed to be eating all that candy—it showed. It showed at the beach. It showed in "tight" skirts. It showed in gym. But I was never dumb enough to think I was Fat; because I wasn't, I just wasn't perfect. And I have never liked perfect things, they give me the creeps.

I got jealous. I thought you liked her better." "I wish you didn't feel that way," he'd say, often, in the beginning. He hasn't said it to me lately; it's been nearly a year since his smiling made suicide seem perfectly sensible.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Joan Blondell] biographer, Matthew Kennedy, quotes her as admitting, "If I had taken myself more seriously . . . if I had fought for better roles as, say, Bette Davis did . . . I think I might have been a damned good dramatic actress. But it was just my way; I don't think I ever had the security of feeling confident in myself, really, ever. I used to think, 'I'm just lucky to be here!

The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence"

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

I didn't need protecting and men seemed to sense that. It bothered a lot of them.

In my experience, men or women who kill out of "hopeless love" suffer from low self-esteem and all that malarkey.

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. What a catch.

The average person thinks he isn't.

I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all.

Mary Fisher has built her tower around her, and cemented the stone with banknotes, and lined the walls inside with stolen love, but still she is not safe. She has a mother.

It just burns me, Rina, that this creep has all the women here suspecting everything in pants. But I guess it's natural. It must be tough to be a woman, huh?

But I know as soon as I pack my bags and step off these grounds, I'm going to get swallowed up by that woman you just met.

LA PONCIA: Ésta tiene algo. La encuentro sin sosiego, temblona, asustada, como si tuviese una lagartija entre los pechos.

We're all curious about what might hurt us.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

After a lifetime of making money and observing better men and women than I fall by the wayside, I am convinced that fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. Trust me on this.

No.. no questo tipo no, non è capace. Questo vuole prendere tutto, arraffare tutto, non sa rinunciare a niente; cambia strada ogni giorno perché ha paura di perdere quella giusta, e sta morendo, come dissanguato.

How many relationships endure not from love but because one or both partners fear solitude more than they fear mayhem?

There was no point in anything. No pleasure in being good and clever either, if there was no one to praise and be proud of me. But that felt dangerously close to self-pity, and I would not give in to self-pity.

You knock yourself down. You don't think much of yourself. That's an uncomfortable feeling. So you project it on others and say, 'They don't like me.

It is man's only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane. Jesus Christ said: "Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?" (Mat. 8:26) So we can see we