Quotes About Insecurity

Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool.

Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man.

His heart smack[ed] against his ribs like a bumblebee at a window.

Instead he had become immured, by fear and its majordomo, habit...

Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.

With the money from the legal settlement, he hires a beautiful young woman from the local university to type for him as he orally composes the sentences. But soon he realizes she is editing and rewriting what he tells her before she even types it in. And what dawns on him is that she is the better writer. Soon he sits mute in the room while she writes. He only watches. He wants to kill her, strangle her with his hands. But he can't move his hands to do it. He is in hell.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perceive ourselves. We want to know the meaning of an experience before we have it. We become frightened of direct experience, and we will go to elaborate lengths to avoid it.

Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.

You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed.

For the first time, Manning felt frightened. It was an indefinite fear, of being small and vulnerable among large forces that were indifferent to him.

Jamie Mai was tall and strikingly handsome and so, almost by definition, had the air of a man in charge—until he opened his mouth and betrayed his lack of confidence in everything from tomorrow's sunrise to the future of the human race.

a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.

We're most reactive to the things we secretly accuse ourselves of.

We are most reactive to the things we secretly accuse ourselves of

I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I was bullied since primary school, for everything.

I've been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

To be very sincere, I don't feel legit being an inspiration of anything.