Quotes About Insecurity

We were just kids using each other not to feel out of place.

The strong never need to silence the weak, or they prove that they are the truly weak ones.

Snowbébé, you've probably forgotten by now, but... Once, you looked at my body—my hairless body—and said it was pretty. So you see, your words made me so very happy. I always thought I was unattractive...

I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.

Most violence committed against women is perpetuated by men. I once read a quote that the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her.

He shook his head at himself as he walked out into the night. For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick.

Insults are the last resort of an insecure man with a crumbling argument

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick.

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick. He

the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think I'm going to puke.

Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.

Behind his eyes, sluggish currents of self-dislike, guilt, and shame stirred cloudily.

Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.

It was real. Not your actual father, no, but the one who tells you that you're not good enough. That you don't belong. The one we all secretly fear when the lights are off. The one that religion has turned into a god made in their own image, capable of hatred.

I see now that in my search for love and acceptance, I slowly began to enslave myself to various identities, which I mistook for my real self in many arenas—sports, church, relationships, career, wealth. These identities became like gods of a lesser kind, all of which I hoped would save me from insignificance in this life.

Condemnation is only trying to fight fear with fear.

The wisdom of the world dresses up as helpful protection while binding you to fear

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Security is a kind of death.

As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?

Male pride is not really about pride. It's about fear - the fear of being seen as feminine. And that's why "girl stuff" is so dangerous. And as long as most men remain deathly afraid of it, they'll continue to take it out on the rest of us.