Quotes About Insecurity

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve.

Los que critican el amor son sobre todo aquellos que más lo necesitan.

Laim? gr?sta pasitik?jimu, o meilei b?tina abejon?s ir nerimas.

Mi juventud no ha sido más que un largo suicidio. Me apresuraba a desagradar sólo por el temor de desagradar naturalmente.

Human fear has a terrible power. It changes everything, distorts everything, maddens everything. Fear is the dark womb where monsters are born and thrive.

At first only Tamarind had noticed the awkward, disquieting way his expressions changed, as if a puppeteer were pulling wires to move his face muscles, and doing it rather badly. Nowadays she saw the fear in everybody's eyes. Her brother was going out of tune like an old piano, and nobody would come to retune his strings. Dukes and kings may go mad at their leisure, for nobody has enough power to stop them.

But I'm afraid to sleep!" whispered Trista. "What if I fall to pieces before I wake up? What if tomorrow morning I'm just a pile of leaves and sticks tucked under a blanket? What if this is the last time I've got left, and I waste it all being asleep, then wake up dead?

Suddenly he remembered Josh sitting on the motorbike and chatting with the bikers outside the pub—and he felt a throb of jealousy. It wasn't that he harbored any desire to sit on a motorbike, but...he wanted to be allowed to want to sit on a motorbike.

Makepeace did not know who the 'others' might be, but others were always a threat.

Sabes por qué prácticamente todas las relaciones terminan mal? Yo te lo diré: porque en seguida creemos que el otro es posesión nuestra.

I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure—especially during the years of adolescence—is an almost irresistible force.

When I preach—no matter where it is in the world—I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.

We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

God's star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.

Sin embargo, mientras más conocimiento adquirimos, menos sabiduría parecemos tener. Mientras más seguridad económica tenemos, más aburridos e inseguros nos sentimos.

If anything ever happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. You're all I have, August. I don't want

When two pessimists get together, it results in an endless cycle of pointless second-guessing. Very interesting.

Leaving an abusive partner is a very difficult thing to do. It frequently feels like you are failing, or destroying your family, or not trying to work things out, or not giving your partner "a second chance." It hurts, and it's scary.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.