Quotes About Insecurity

Evil is always fuelled by jealousy.

Jealousy is the root of all evil.

The evilness of doubt crept ever so closer to my heart.

The insecurity of my insecurities is driving me round the bend.

To be jealous is to be as the devil; there is a difference between envy and jealousy.

However, throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. For my part, I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

He loved but he did not know how to be loved.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Most days I woke up brimming with a sudden terror--that I'd forgotten to do essential things, that I'd never make friends in Colorado, that my appearance as an adult in the world was only a thin candy shell hiding a tiny, rattling center of incompetent thirteen-year-old, or worse yet, nothing at all.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York Blues")

When you have an uneasy feeling that happiness is beginning to slip through your fingers you hang on as tightly as you can; you don't give it an added push away from you.

Nessuno è di fronte alle donne più arrogante, aggressivo e sdegnoso dell'uomo malsicuro della propria virilità

But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.

There was a part of her that cried out, 'Am I good enough yet?' but who was she hoping would answer that question?

It was San Francisco, after all; if you are a guy and you're worried about the girl you like hooking up with someone on her vacation, I suppose San Francisco is the safest bet, assuming she doesn't give her heart to a lesbian--and who among us hasn't done that?

We compare our behind-the-scenes with other people's highlight reels.

I was going through that little bit of worry that I had said or done something wrong and that she might not want to see me again. I saw me every day, and I wasn't so sure I was that fond of my company.

He began moving again, and I spoke after him under my breath in a voice he couldn't have possibly heard. "I wish I had as much faith in me as you do in me." But nonetheless, did. "So do I.

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together

Like, I know I'm unbearably obnoxious at home, but I'm actually pretty shy out there. I'm like the chubby quiet brown girl who is decent academically, but who never risks venturing an opinion. It's weird, because, like, in a world full of frost giants and dwarves and demons and spellcasting, my fantasies were really about being a confident, decisive person who had their shit together and was listened to.

Others seek commitment because they fear loneliness.

We're all afraid of being alone, but perhaps the thing you fear the most -not having a boyfriend- may be the thing that will give you the independence you need in order to find real love.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.