Quotes About Insecurity

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

I definitely don't do stomach, because nobody wants to see that.

Magnus wants to shout at me, don't you, Magnus?" (Jace) "Yes," Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-

So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace. "Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

Everybody wants to be more wanted, until they are.

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness?

When thugs were in power, educated people were the first to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small.

For a long time, Lostara had concluded that the woman in command of the Bonehunters was simply incapable of revealing her vulnerable side.