Quotes About Insecurity

As a kid growing up, I really hated being alone. I was always that kid that was like, 'Do you want to hang out? Let's go to the mall. Let's go to the movies. Let's go to the park.' I would call people and call people and call people. If I was alone when I wasn't at school, then there was something wrong.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.

I was actually always really self-conscious about my gap. In middle school, this group of girls were always trying to beat me up - they called my gap a parking lot. It was a really awkward time.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

In my big group of girlfriends at home, I am definitely not the best looking. I did not grow up feeling like I was particularly attractive.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.'

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

Growing up, all I learned was how best to diminish my own light for a partner.

It's always my biggest insecurity - disappointing myself or my partner.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

Our self-image soars with a compliment and is devastated by a criticism.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Ich hatte Angst in ein Gasthaus zu gehen wenn Bauern drinnensaßen. Ich dachte mir daß sie nichts Gutes über mich denken. Ich überwand diese Angst mit der Vorstellung etwas Besonderes zu sein. Das Besondere bestand in meinem Leid. Ich war erfüllt von dem Maß meiner Leiden. Ich habe Angst diese Leiden aufzugeben weil ich nicht weiß was dann von mir übrigbleibt.

The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves...

Everyone's running from something.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2 000 people.

Hayranl?k ma?lup olmu? bir k?skançl?kt?r. Yani k?skançl?k g?ptaya, g?pta hayranl??a yerini verir. Dibinde kin vard?r. Gitgide, hayranl???n zaafa u?rad??? anlarda bu kin ortaya ç?kar.

Zaaf anlar?nda, insan?n can s?k?c? bir vak?ay? tahsis edemeyerek umumile?tirmesi ve bir felâketi ayn? seri içindeki bütün menfi ihtimallere te?mil ederek hepsini hakikat gibi görmesi yüzünden ?inasi de, Neriman'?n arkada?? taraf?ndan davet edilememesinin hususî sebeplerini ara?t?ram?yor, bütün Darülelhan k?zlar?n?n kendisinden ho?lanmad???n? zannetmeye kadar var?yordu.