Quotes About Insecurity

Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.

Söylemek istediÄŸim ÅŸey ÅŸu: Beni seviyorsan, beni reddedecek kadar az sevdiÄŸin güne göre, nas?l oluyor da ÅŸu anda beni daha çok seviyorsun?

In his despondency, he concluded that he had no judgment whatever, that he was hypnotized by what he wrote, and that he was a self-deluded pretender.

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.

Because people can be foolish," Drustan said. "And fearful of heroes not their own.

You were the most desirable woman I've ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.

My own father had sold me to a stranger.

But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy beauty. Is that because it's beyond them? Is it because beauty represents something they cannot have, or is not inside them?

Fear was the scariest of emotions and it nestled there, growing ever stronger and sprouting shoots, a seed in the fertile soil of doubt.

And fear is really the most omnipresent of emotions, isn't it? Fear and panic can be crippling for all concerned.

And unless you show that you are as good at everything as they are, you find that you spend virtually all your time running behind them screaming like a banshee, 'Me too, me too!

Would it help if I told you I am a little rusty when it comes to having a relationship?" "A little? They can hear your hinges squeaking all the way on Mars," she said irreverently.

Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

perfectionism is sometimes the most dangerous set of thoughts you can let make their home in your head.

Rejection—and the fear of rejection—is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

Every night I woke up in dread, terrified of yet one more insecure tomorrow. I wasn't even brave enough to kill myself. And the truth was only leading me closer to a death agony. The agony that youth was gone, and for the rest of my tomorrows I was finished, crushed by my responsibilities, and the carved out hole of loss inside of me.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.

If you look helpless, people react to you in one way and if you look strong, or just come on strong, people react to you in another way, and, since you don't see what they see, this can be very painful.

They are just dirty, all of them, low and cheap and dirty.' He stretched out his hand and pulled me down to the floor beside him. 'All except you. Tous, sauf toi.' He held my face between his hands and I supposed such tenderness has scarcely ever produced such terror as I then felt. 'Ne me laisse pas tomber, je t'en prie,' he said, and kissed me, with a strange insistent gentleness on the mouth.

The dream of safety dies hard.

I do not know what I would do if you left me. For the first time I felt the suggestion of a threat in his voice—or I put it there. I have been alone so long—I do not think I would be able to live if I had to be alone again.