Quotes About Insecurity

I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck.

When you're jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you're jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out

Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

I was alone before you came and would be still more alone if you threw me over, but I can't bear the idea of your being too ashamed of me to introduce me to your parents.

I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Ones need for control is directly proportional for ones need for love.

My biggest fear will be the rescue of me.

How are you feeling?" Seth bounced the ball. "Fine. Weird. I don't know.

But with you, I don't know what to trust.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Kaladin followed [Shallan]. What else could he do? Explain to Adolin? Yes, princeling. I let your betrothed wander off alone in the darkness to get eaten by a chasmfiend. No, I didn't go with her. Yes, I'm a coward.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

So, you're worried about what?" M-Bot said. "That your shadow might take your place?" "No," I whispered. "I worry that I'm already the shadow.

Why is it," Marasi said angrily, "that small-minded men must destroy that which they know is better, and greater, than they?

I can't ever come up with any logical reason why she would want to be with me. I just...have to trust her judgment.

What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?

he was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight it made other men question if they were.

They're scared of you." Zahel's voice, drifting again above the crowd. "Do you see it in them? Show them why.