Quotes About Insecurity

he met this woman at the supermarket where he works.' She sighed. 'But he doesn't really love her! He's just punishing me … I mean, she's got no breasts.

He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog.

Yet, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" opens up a political question. Why should this man be penniless at any time in his life, due to some fantastic thing called a Depression or sickness or whatever it is that makes him so insecure?

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love." — Sigmund Freud

They were always comparing themselves to the outside world, which none of them had ever seen, declaring themselves the best. This insistence on "best" seemed strangely childlike, and the words best and greatest were used so frequently that they gradually lost their meaning.

Yes, monsters all of us, I thought. And so horribly fragile.

No one stands on a rug that cannot be pulled out from under her...

In high school, Karen and Sarah had done everything to their hair they could think of except take care of it. They had bleached it, shaved it, permed it, dyed it, as girls do when vandalizing themselves seems the best way of proving their bodies were theirs.

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I was really shy because I didn't have much of a social life.

Social media can be so damaging.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.

I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I've erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.

For some reason I didn't have a lot of social skills, I didn't date a lot of girls. I always had the thing where I was in love with one girl.

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.