Quotes About Insecurity

All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

She turned and walked away, pausing only a moment at the door to glance over her shoulder. William wanted to think she was looking at him, but he figured she was probably more interested in his friend. William decided to let it drop. There was no telling what Miss Dandridge might be thinking.

America, there is not a place I can wander inside you and not feel a little afraid.

All Americans are defensive. You can't help it.

No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.

Jealousy is really an umbrella term for a constellation of feelings including envy, competitiveness, insecurity, inadequacy, possessiveness, fear of abandonment, feeling unloved, and feeling left out. To say simply "I am jealous" is far too vague, since it means different things to different people and it manifests itself in so many diverse ways.

You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.

What it is," she sighed, "to have to choose between self and security.

obsession with beauty (longing for beauty / fear of aging).

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace.

Otherwise he'll always be worrying about what she thinks of him. It's her eyes on him that make him so afraid of his magic. He'd be much happier and less worried without her around. As would I, frankly. I don't particularly like dragons who point sharp things at me.

It doesn't mean anything, this twisting feeling in my chest.

And then, more softly, but chiming from somewhere inside both of them: I wonder what she thinks of me.

Starflight had been terrified plenty of times since leaving the caves where he grew up.

Moon recognized one of them as Sora. The MudWing was doing some kind of breathing ritual where she imagined mud pouring over all her fears, burying them, so all Moon could see was ripples. Another dragonet was reading, but couldn't concentrate on the words; he kept thinking, Everyone will know I don't belong here.

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?

Blaze doesn't like any dragons prettier than she is. Which Glory is. Not that I've noticed, myself, personally. It's just a fact.

Starflight looked as if someone had just asked him whether breathing was really necessary.

When he resurfaced, she was floating beside him, ducking her head and splashing water over her scales like a beautiful overgrown fish. Clay felt like a gawky brown blob next to her.

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery.

Io penso che fosse solo spaventato. Penso che scambiasse qualsiasi manifestazione di stanchezza da parte di Stella per il segno di un abbandono imminente. Dopotutto era un artista, e in ogni artista si annida un bambino sperduto e indifeso.

Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.

Never be distressed, honey. I know her faults as well as any man.' 'Of course, she is very beautiful,' said Sophia, glancing at him timidly. 'Yes. Tell me, is Diana wholly in love with Jack?' 'I may be wrong,' she said, after a pause, 'I know very little about these things, or anything else; but I do not believe Diana knows what love is at all.