Quotes About Insecurity

Anxiety, unlike real fear, is always caused by uncertainty.

You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

In my worst moments, it seemed the state not only of me, but of the whole world, with all of us on the verge of turning around and finding the dead behind us... do your worst. Disrupt my certainty, try to fool me, make me believe. Get me to believe there is nothing dead behind me.

Dreams larger than ourselves we killed, not wanting our smallness measured against them." (poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

Fear of failure is one of the most common traits of bad managers.

the illusion of safety I didn't even know I was feeling – the safety of being in a group, the safety of numbers – disappears.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.

Who was that?" I asked my aunt "Him?" my aunt said, and I could hear the shrug in her voice. "He's no one." "All right," I said, trying to make my shrug audible, too. But in truth, I was happy to hear Aunt Beatrice say he was no one. It is easier to feel like you're someone if you know someone else is no one.

And single parents, like your mother, often end up feeling like they are inadequate—that there is something wrong with them, that they aren't enough. When really, it's the modern world that's not enough.

For most people, the unknown is one of the major causes of feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

I always felt like a burden, an "extra mouth to feed." I rarely remember feeling loved. From as early as I can remember, I knew I was on my own.

We don't begin our lives by asking: Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I deserving or lovable?

we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

When asked where his drive comes from] " You're bullied, you're miserable...every artist has someone who told them they weren't worth dirt and someone who told them that they were the second coming of the baby Jesus and they believed them both, and that's the fuel that stirs the fire.

We'll never truly be happy or safe, never. Never, ever.

The child, so much more insecure than an adult, needs assurance that his need to engage in fantasy, or his inability to stop doing so, is not a deficiency.

If only we could recall how we felt when we were small, or could imagine how utterly defeated a young child feels when his play companions or older siblings temporarily reject him or can obviously do things better than he can, or when adults—worst of all, his parents—seem to make fun of him or belittle him, then we would know why the child often feels like an outcast:

Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.