Quotes About Insecurity

In a moment of imagined separation, we become self-conscious and self-absorbed, and we assume we are less worthy than every other person we encounter. We want to hide out and yet be noticed. When this happens to nations of people, wars start.

My nose was running, I couldn't see worth shit and my brain was still frozen in abject terror.

the idea of facing down the god of war made me feel incontinent

In Wirklichkeit fühlte ich mich, als würde ich aus Zuckerwatte bestehen, und jeder, der wollte, konnte sich ein Stück von mir abpflücken und damit wegrennen.

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

I have a hunger, for more than food. I have a hunger bigger than Joyce City. I want tongues to tie, and eyes to shine at me like they do at Mad Dog Craddock. Course they never will, not with my hands all scarred up, looking like the earth itself, all parched and rough and cracking, but if I played right enough, maybe they would see past my hands. Maybe they could feel at ease with me again, and maybe then, I could feel at east with myself.

Because if you are fresh from the hazing of PhD training, you are: insecure, defensive, paranoid, beset by feelings of inadequacy, pretentious, self-involved, communicatively challenged, and fixated on minutiae.

I had a sudden dismal view of my future, of being led around and asked incessantly, like one of those Verizon commercials, Do you feel sick now?

Caveat: what you fear most will destroy you.

I lived with the constant awareness that if I cared about you and you figured it out, you'd leave.

I hate cages. For most folks, they're built from fear and they do it to themselves. Not me. Mine were forged of helplessness. Most kids' are.

Fearless people are outsiders. The fearful have many places to belong.

Really, how much of a relationship can she think they're having when he's still "selecting" her every morning?

Now that I'm a little over the edge anyway, I can admit something: My whole life, I've secretly been afraid that beneath my fiercely focused grooming and accessorizing, I'm, well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ psychotic.

I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation.

As she'd already learned to her cost, there were no guarantees in life, no guarantees that the person you loved would be there from one day to the next, no guarantees about anything at all.

She doesn't know how to answer the man's question about why she snuck into the conch. She just feels like there's something she needs to protect. Some larval understanding, something cocooned inside her, that seems to get unspun and exploded with each passing year. Big Red curls up in a cold recess of the conch. That's the way to do it, the grown-up voices whisper. Wear your skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret.

She doesn't know how to answer the man's question about why she snuck into the conch. She just feels like there's something she needs to protect. Some larval understanding, something cocooned inside her, that seems to get unspun and exploded with each passing year... That's the way to do it , the grown up voices whisper. Wear your skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

If it got out that I didn't have to rush back, I'd be forced to stay longer. The thought of remaining scared me. Like I'd start shedding my new, shiny skin I'd worked so hard to achieve, revealing the scarred and ugly person beneath.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

deal. To be honest, I was getting a bit self-conscious about