Quotes About Insecurity

The inability to say yes, however—to intimacy, a job opportunity, an alcohol program—is more about lack of trust in oneself. Will I mess this up? Will this turn out badly? Isn't it safer to stay where I am?

Behind my questions lies the assumption that Wendell is a more competent human being than I am. Sometimes I wonder, Who am I to make the important decisions in my own life? Am I really qualified for this?

The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.

avoidance is almost always about fear.

Maybe because from the creative point of view there is nothing so dangerous as security.

I'm a shaky traveler, she said. I can't even sleep through a flight, I have to be awake for the crash.

So we're still…friends?" Aubrey asked. "We weren't ever really friends," Ali admitted. "I'm too jealous of your hair.

When it comes to you? Hell no," he said. "With you, I'm so far out of my league I can't even see the league.

But love? I don't think I'm really cut out for that particular emotion. I question everything too much.

Because it's easier than facing the fact that I'm never quite . . . enough for someone.

I'm not built that way, I'm not good at relationships. I'm not good at letting people in and keeping them. I don't know how.

I always feared there was something about me. Maybe some inability to be loved that men could sense left over from being raised without family ties. Maybe loneliness is like a flaw men can spot and so shy away from.

Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty.

I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster. My dick is better than your dick, I said.

I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There's heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.

Worry is fear in disguise.

Jealousy is common among lesser men

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

I felt like a collection of complaints and malfunctions

He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity." "Bob," I said, "you're a skull. You don't have any masculinity to insult.