Quotes About Insecurity

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn't good enough.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

are the ones most capable of infecting your dreams with doubt and negativity.

I suppose you're young,' she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as compliments until I realised I was too old, too fat, too tall, too dull, too everything to ever find love.

I still think the fashion industry has a long way to go as far as self-awareness in the way it affects the people that it employs and targets. I do feel that there are marketing tactics in fashion that purposely instigate people to feel insecure in order to purchase a product to make themselves "better".

I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

If you like your natural self, don't worry about it, but if you feel insecure about something ... I have a magic bag of beauty tricks to make you who you want to be.

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

Ich fühlte mich in Margas Gegenwart nicht mehr wohl, als müsste ich stets vor etwas auf der Hut sein, ein dumpfer, verschwommener Argwohn, ich könnte ihr Missfallen erregen. Kontrolliert, beinah zensiert, fühlte ich mich.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.