Quotes About Insecurity

Doubt is just another color of fear.

What if God didn't want me, either? Where does one go if the Almighty rejects you?

man, letting all her doubts fade

I wasn't usually one to toot my own horn, which could also explain the no-boyfriend-status of my life. If bright plumage was the key, I was closer to being a brown wren.

I was used to her getting what she wanted. Especially guys. I basically carry a mop to clean up their drool whenever she's around.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don't know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Stephen, why are you shivering?' 'I don't know, my darling.' 'Mary, why are you crying?' 'I don't know, Stephen.' p424

I want life, and yet I'm always afraid.

Yes, that's why I'm so frightened, you make me feel strong—

The fear that all this will end." "The fear that it won't.

What shy, awkward bookworm alive could have resisted that, when the cutest boy she'd ever met in real life was so sweet to her?" He didn't want to be sweet right now.

I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

And—I don't know—I guess words can't kill you, but I'm afraid that they can. I'm afraid one day someone will say something that destroys me.

The reason is that the race-hater is inwardly a man who hates himself. He finds it necessary to shift to others his own unconscious feelings of guilt. Hence he chooses as his victim a member of a minority group who is less able to defend himself than the average person. To his victim he unconsciously shifts his own shortcomings

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

Is it any great wonder', asked the writer, 'that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.

Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're intelligent, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their ignorance!

Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're superior, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their choice of being inferior! ~Ramana Pemmaraju