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Quotes About Insecurity

As jealousy entered, trust left... and their dream of a relationship began to wither into a nightmare... a nightmare in which love just wasn't enough.
~ Steve Maraboli
The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
~ David W. Earle
First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call--I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?
~ Rainbow Rowell, Landline
People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.
~ Vivian Amis
It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.
~ Milton Rokeach
I feel such poignancy when I look back and see this image of myself, this unworldly young woman, trying so hard to please, yet not wanting anyone to come near.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..
~ Miranda July
Thut-mose III opened the series of military campaigns in Asia by an expedition against the former fortified places of the Hyksos. The feeling of insecurity produced by the foreign occupation was long in disappearing. It was in order to make Egypt invulnerable to external aggression that Thut-mose III proceeded to a series of conquests that ended in the Empire.
~ Mircea Eliade
It's possible that my insecurity is the very quality that connects me to everyone else. I don't hide my vulnerability. I don't know how.
~ Miriam Margolyes
It's a humiliation that you don't forget, and even early in life you learn the pain of rejection because your body isn't wanted.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Algunes de les persones que estimem també són persones de qui tenim por.
~ Miriam Toews
People are only mean when they are threatened.
~ Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does
~ Mitch Albom
What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
~ Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they're threatened and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
~ Mitch Albom
I'm too ugly to be a narcissist.
~ Mitch Albom
Worry is something you create ... to fill a void [of] faith
~ Mitch Albom
Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith.
~ Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they're threatened," he said later that day, "and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
~ Mitch Albom
Maybe that's worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.
~ Mitch Albom
Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.
~ Mitch Albom
Worry is something you create. Why would we create worry? To fill a void. A void of what? Faith.
~ Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they're threatened
~ Mitch Albom