Quotes About Insecurity

All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like

Some people are like that. They think anyone's amusement must be at their expense.

I couldn't deal with the kind of need for a man that had ruled my mother's life - the kind of need that made it impossible to breath when self-worth was wrapped up in "I love yous.

fear has a way of paralyzing the mind, body, and soul, all at once!

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Je me crois un écrivain dans sa tour d'ivoire, je ne suis qu'un minus habens perché sur son nuage.

She did things to keep her man happy; I did things to keep my man from killing me.

I wasn't anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles and everybody would see there wasn't anything there, just a vile mess. And I was afraid that maybe the rot inside me would break out in sores and warts, screaming: 'traitor, sinner, imposter.'" Part

The sense of dependence and the narcissism that were to mark, and sometimes ruin, Sylvia's relationships in the future clearly originated in her childhood fear of abandonment.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

There's somthing inside me that pulls beneath the surface. Consuming. Confusing. This lack of self-control I fear is never ending. Controlling. I can't seem To find myself again, My walls are closing in (Without a sense of confidence, I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take) I felt this way before... So insecure..

When i look into your eyes There's nothing there to see Nothing but my own mistakes Staring back at me Asking whyyyy?!?!

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn't work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

Between ourselves, I've started to worry that in some backhanded way I've become attached to the disfigurement of my own life.

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.

you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

clingy". It's an ugly word, isn't it, that describes the honey of the heart as a sticky, pestersome substance that won't brush off.

so i wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother.

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present. They're not about the future at all. The future is just the ultimate monster in the closet, the great unknown.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.