Quotes About Insecurity

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

Not to say you should let your physicality define you, but there are some things that can make people feel really insecure. So, if there is something you want to fix that allows you to feel a little bit more confident, I support it.

There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about being in the shadow of people I've dated and people I worked with publicly.

My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.

It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.

I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.

It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.

I'm just not sure that I'm good enough for her. She's a top shelf drink, I'm a house poured shot.

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don't know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you're staying right here.

When they love you, you'll know it. If they don't, you'll wonder all the time if they do.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

you calls it Possesiveness, i calls it Fear Of Loosing You.

Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.