Quotes About Insecurity

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.