Quotes About Insecurity

The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.

For me, being together, fellow souls joined in fear, was some comfort. For him, that was weakness. In taking his hand I was telling him what I had seen, and that was something he could not allow.

I wanted to believe someone liked me enough to claim me.

just because you're afraid doesn't actually mean there's anything to be afraid of.

It has puzzled me that men, who claim more and more authority over women, show such fear of those whom they call weak. Perhaps they are hoping that women will come to believe that they need to be protected and dominated, but I cannot imagine any woman being so foolish.

it's nice of Mrs. Goe to think that marching against the juvenile juror law is going to keep kids safe. But the fact is, we're NOT safe. Nobody is. That's the whole point. There's no such thing as being safe--here or anywhere. People get hurt every day. Some people get killed by weirdos like Bob White and some people just get teased to death at the lunch table for drinking orange soda or eating a tuna fish sandwich.

Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

Like Frankenstein, I am afraid of the monster I have called into existence.

Well, be careful," she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. "Because wouldn't it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?

You never wanted to appear out of your element in New York. It made you vulnerable.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered.

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

resent her, or feel like she was so much smarter than them that it was annoying. She played field hockey well enough that

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.

In a blank wall you may well fear the blindness which sees through you and sees you through.

So many people live in fear, fear of losing what they have, the little job that provides their daily bread, the wife they have managed to acquire, fear for their health, fear on account of their children, fear at the thought of old age.

Her own nose was too long and her facial structure too bony for anyone ever to have asked her hand in marriage. She consoled herself for this by guzzling.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new.