Quotes About Insecurity

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

Poor Petey. I'd like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I'd rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

The truth is, I'm not body confident.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

What is your type?"I shrugged. "Non-existent.

Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.

Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear.

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

The youth felt it would be useless to clear up the problem of his name.

The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure.

When I was a kid, I hated the mask of adulthood. And I was threatened by it.

When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

But like all beautiful faces Emily's made you believe that its possessor was a better person than she was. It allowed her to pass for stoical when she was petrified, and mysterious and aloof when she was so filled with self-doubt that she bought presents for other people when it was her birthday, framed most of her conversation in terms of apology and regret, and for all her talent could no longer manage to string twenty-five paragraphs fo prose together to make a short story.

I saw that I could write ten thousand more pages of shimmering prose and still be nothing but a blind minotaur stumbling along broken ground, an unsuccessful, overweight ex-wonder boy with a pot habit and a dead dog in the trunk of my car.