Quotes About Insecurity

I look suspiciously at the half-empty glass in my hand.

Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Several studies have shown that spending as little as three minutes looking fashion magazines causes as many as 70 percent of women to feel depressed and guilty about their appearance. There

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

Torn between obsessive insecurity and proselytizing zeal, between the requirements of Europe and the temptations of Asia, the Russian Empire always had a role in the European equilibrium but was never emotionally a part of it.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

You hide your fear and call it something else You're addicted to all the things that make you weak

Sometimes it's hard to convince yourself that you're not an idiot.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included alll the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human failings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class - herself alone - had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

I consider jealousy to be insulting to you and degrading to me.

I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous.

What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A man of no account, wanted by no one and of no use to anyone.

Levin suddenly blushed, not as grown men blush, slightly, without being themselves aware of it, but as boys blush, feeling that they are ridiculous through their shyness,