Quotes About Insecurity

It was jealousy that was at the bottom of it - jealousy which survives every other passion of mankind...

the men are undone by the need to master, and the women by the power of self-doubt.

Wildly, I pursued the shadow of her infidelity; but the scent I travelled upon was so slight as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman's fancy.

Something was destroyed forever [...], everything would henceforward be tainted with a poisonous flavour of doubt

Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.

My mom used to say that a man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman." -Serena

My mom used to say that a man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.

When you own nothing, it's hard to believe you have anything to lose.

I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

All boys are pathetic.

Isn't it amazing how a kid can come out of all that analyzing everything incessantly down to the most infinitesimal neurosis and still be all alone?

Fear is the brother of hate.

Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

Odias la idea de no saber qué está pasando, de no poder hacer nada para evitarlo, de no ser tú. Tienes miedo de no llevar las riendas, de que otro te domine a ti. Estás demasiado acostumbrado a ser tú él que lo sabe y lo controla todo.

A veces odiamos lo que es diferente a nosotros.Pero muy a menudo se debe a que tenemos miedo de lo que no conocemos, de lo que es distinto. Y porque en el fondo, tememos que nos guste

Todos hacemos cosas estúpidas cuando nos sentimos dolidos para llamar la atención de las personas que nos han herido.

Her friend Alex would have had a gun in her purse. Elaina would disable the guy with a few martial arts moves. But Mia didn't own a gun—much less carry one—and she couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag.

It was wounded pride. The only thing worse than throwing herself at him was clinging to him afterward and pressuring him to feel things he didn't. Dani

You were afraid to look up because you felt your face might be seen from above.

But now I saw the real problem with chasing after a man. It wasn't a matter of being unseemly or socially unacceptable or not playing the game right. It was just this: if I chase him, I'll never really know if he cares enough to chase me.

She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

They could not love Rosalind as much as they loved Olivia because they knew she could be taken from them.