Quotes About Insecurity

What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out

I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.

O! Better to have no home in which to lay his head, than to have a home and dread to go to it, through such a cause.

I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.

I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel, and how exposed to hundreds of chances. All my expectations depend on one person. And how indefinite and uncertain they are!

When I perceived (which I did, almost as soon) that jealousy was growing out of this, I liked this society still better. Had I not been subject to jealousy,

Taip per vis? gyvenim? mes darome žemus ir menkus poelgius, baimindamiesi t?, kuri? visiškai nevertiname.

Doctor, if something goes wrong, there is probably squat-all we can do about it, anyway. I'm sure you folks have been chatting about the ship that just came in so you're probably guessing the same thing I am: that if these Dornaani wanted to put their foot up our ass and wriggle their toes out our nostrils, I doubt there's a thing in creation we could do about it.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.

...it slays love quicker than any other one thing... Indeed, the jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. By their suspicions the jealous materialize the very thing they most dread...

Jealousy is vengeful — not to its target but to ourselves.

To be jealous is to rub salt into your own wounds.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see behind a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

Don't let your jealousy harden into hate.

Perhaps for some, rudeness is the fear of being nice.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. People don't fight for the reasons they give for it after they have got into the war; they fight because something has happened; because a train of circumstances has happened that puts their nerves on edge which makes them unhappy in their suspicions; which makes them feel unsafe and insecure until by a continuation of that mentality they come to the conclusion.

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Danger never takes a vacation.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Everyone who had reason to work with him agreed that he'd changed. A lot of his confidence seemed to have gone. He was less sure of himself, less prepared to take a risk or two, somehow smaller. Maybe it was something that would pass, said some. Maybe not.