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Quotes About Insecurity

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
~ Nelson Mandela
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
~ Albert Ellis
the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
~ H. L. Mencken
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it
~ John Galliano
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
~ Kurt Cobain
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
~ Jane Austen
I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.
~ Lecrae
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
~ William Penn
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
~ Grace Metalious
Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.
~ Mordecai Richler
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
~ Madeleine de Scudery
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
~ Larry David
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
~ Albert Camus
My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.
~ James Hetfield
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
~ Neal Stephenson
And then she figures out something important: These people aren't looking at her. They're not even giving her a second glance. They're all looking at Raven. And it's not just a case of celebrity watching or something like that. All of these Raft dudes, these tough scary homeboys of the sea, are scared shitless of this guy. And she's on a date with him. And it's just started.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's just like the reviews promised—other people's ordinariness is more rewarding than your own. Their banality is soothing to your own sense of failure. Because being you is so much more interesting than being me.
~ Neal Stephenson
Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
~ Neal Stephenson
I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.
~ Neal Stephenson
think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.
~ Neal Stephenson
Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.
~ Neal Stephenson
These Burbclaves! These citystates! So small, so insecure, that just about everything, like not mowing your lawn, or playing your stereo too loud, becomes a national security issue.
~ Neal Stephenson