Quotes About Insecurity

Era domingo. Se fumasse, acenderia agora um cigarro para ficar com ar de pessoa distraída. Mas assim tão sem vícios e portanto sem ter sobre o que derramar a distração que desejava, ai - assim ficava tão solta. Perdi até o sono, suspirou, como se o sono fosse a sua última reserva de segurança. E estou compreguiça de trabalhar e tenho vontade de falar uma palavrão, que merda também.

The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well—for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?

Screaming our affirmations can make us sound like we're in doubt

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

[Models] have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

1)I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. 2)I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

I don't believe there's such a thing as casual sex for people like you and me. How could there be? We don't have casual relationships with our bodies. They're unpredictable, humiliating things that have failed us so much it's hard not to hate them, and impossible to imagine being naked with another person and relaxed at the same time.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

it's 4:21 am. He's gotta be done having mind-blowing-knock-your-dick-into-your-watch-pocket sex with her, and she's probably spooning with him right now. Ugh, it makes me sick. I'll bet he's in front, too, the dick. Anyone would know that Heaven is supposed to be the little spoon, but he's probably making her be the big spoon.

I'm not sure I agree with everything he says; but then I'm not sure I agree with everything I say.

La violence n'est qu'une surcompensation du doute.

El núcleo de todos los celos es una falta de amor.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.

An unhappy child not getting comfort or support at home will look for it somewhere else. Next

Worry is a way to avoid admitting powerlessness over something, since worry feels like we're doing something.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.

There are adults who are terribly threatened by my manner, because there's something within them...I may evoke something within them that's very tender that they never knew about and that may be very frightening to them. I think that people who put me down and feel they cannot stand that presentation of gentle masculinity have not dealt with that within themselves.

was death with women in high school," he said. "Absolutely the strike-out king. I was a little too geeky, a little too gangly, and much too manic.

Once the race for the victim position is under way, each person must find some way to out-victim the other.