Quotes About Insecurity

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Why me?" Claire asked him. "Fuck if I know." She blinked. Well, that wasn't exactly some romantic confession.

Ah, what was that? Jealousy? Men. Take away the jeans and designer labels and you had cavemen beating their chests.

Sometimes," she confessed as she stared at him, totally nude and vulnerable as she bared her darkest truth, "what I fear most is myself." Trusting the wrong man. Not going for what she wanted. Letting life pass her by.

Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her – she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John's success. But that wasn't the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John's self-confidence and left him angry and hurt.

he had been left so painfully as a child and was terrified that it would happen again.

He's just being a man," Estelle said. "Wanting his freedom, but not wanting you to have any." "No, he is being a boy," Fifi countered. "Afraid of these feelings that are so big, so powerful, that they make him feel small. So he tries to ignore them, thinking he can control things this way." She shrugged in disdain. "As if love were an enemy to be

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

But there is nothing in me, just fear, nothing but the running of dark waves.

I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.

Why do I always want to appear more clever than I really am when Nora is anywhere about? Am much distressed at this discovery, as I have just read an article in this morning's paper saying that intellectual snobbery is snobbery in its worst form.)

Someday, she was convinced, somebody would find out that she was an imposter in the adult world.

It was because she was too yielding, too frightened of unpleasant scenes, that she had allowed herself to be dominated and repressed.

had written and warned Mr. Heatley that I was slow and he had replied that it did not matter—but would it? Supposing they found me too slow! Supposing the work was beyond me! The idea of plunging into an office amongst a lot of other clerks who knew their jobs was alarming to say the least of it.

She turned and leant upon the wall. She did not want to show him her face. It was the sort of face that expressed its owner's feelings much too openly. If Bel were happy, if she were sad, if she received a sudden shock it was written in her face for all the world to see. She had often wished for a "poker face" but never more than now.

I've always played some version of a nerdy guy or something like that. I mean, one of my story lines on 'Silicon Valley' is that I am very bad with women!

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.

I've had that recurring dream since I was a child, and a lot of people have different versions of that same dream, where you're running away from something, and it's going kind of slowly, but it's catching up with you, and it will not stop, and you cannot get away from it. Those dreams are manifested in different ways, but most people have them.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.