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Quotes About Insecurity

He would know that if he hadn't been the person he was, terrified and cowardly and petty and insecure and sexually panicked and broken, Sadie might have been his.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
With equal intensity, she feared her New York life was the best of all possible worlds, and that once she left New York, the gates would come down and lock, and she'd be too feeble and parochial to ever be allowed to return.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
How to explain to Destiny that the thing that made her work leap forward in 1996 was that she had been a dervish of selfishness, resentment, and insecurity? Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn't typically get made by happy people.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
probably going to fail and then I'll probably end up just like my mother." She stands up from
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, the passage goes, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
college friends. "It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unloveable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unloveable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.
~ Gail Carson Levine
These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-" "That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment
~ Gail Giles
Fear seems to be the ruling judge.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
~ Garry Shandling
If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.
~ Garth Nix
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
~ Gary Allan
Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want... He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I'm not lying. My brother wiped at his eyes.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.
~ Gary L. Thomas
I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
~ Gary Numan
Oh come on, smile. Lisa, Jack... being bisexual is hardly a crime. Best of both worlds, isn't it?' And Ianto pushed her away. 'No,Gwen. No, really it's bloody not. It's the worst of any world because you don't really belong anywhere, because you are never sure of yourself ot those around you. You can't trust in anyone, their motives or their intentions. And because of that, you have, in a world that likes its shiny labels, no true identity.
~ Gary Russell
I trust no one totally.
~ Gary Sheffield
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
~ Gary Shteyngart
many of these left wing idiots tried to fight Kellen and his Nazi followers using logic and rational arguments. Are you kidding me? That shit never works. What the country needed was someone who would make fun of them for the idiotic, small dick, insecure, evil fucks that they were.
~ Gary Whitta
Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
~ Gaston Leroux
But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?
~ Gaston Leroux
Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience.
~ Gavin de Becker