Quotes About Insecurity

Morrison kept looking to everyone else, probably hoping someone would provide him with an opinion, because he wasn't ready to have one of his own.

You want to be left alone, but you're afraid to be left alone, but you're afraid to not be left alone.

If you're so immature that you're afraid of being labeled by morons, then check out and we'll find another artist.

It was Rowan who had coined the term lettuce-kid to describe them. Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and where far from being their parents' favorites. I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, is I guess I'm the lettuce

My own head had become a treacherous place.

My ego says it must be me they're after

You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.

Now he was so deep in his own unsavorism, he wasn't quite sure he wanted to come up for air.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?' 'Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

Why do you haggle your beauty?" I asked. "Why don't you just live with it?" "Because people think it's all I have. Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you you know it's for something else.

Then came the Christmas party. That was December 24th. There were to be drinks, food, music, dancing. I didn't like parties. I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of writers. Like flies on the same turd.

crawled like a blind slug into the web

I suppose that at last like the average man: I've known too many women and instead of thinking, I wonder who's fucking her now? I think she's giving some other poor son of a bitch much trouble right now.

It got so bad that Al thought maybe it was him so he went to a shrink and asked and the shrink said, you're one of the sanest men I've ever met. poor Al. that made him feel worse than ever.

El problema con el mundo es que la gente inteligente está llena de dudas, mientras que la gente estúpida está llena de certezas.

I talked to Miriam. She says you paint and write, you're an artist at rare times I'm an artist; at most other times I'm nothing

They had been afraid of the man with the beautifil eyes. And we were afraid then that all troughout our lives things like that would happen, that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others will never allow it, and that many people will have to die.