Quotes About Insecurity

O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

They both knew that jealousy could rise like a tide, erasing events that had been scratched into the shore of your memory.

Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone.

But it feels like we are sitting on a tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. How am I supposed to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?

I didn't want to be treated like him," Josie said, answering her mother, when what she really meant was, I wasn't brave enough.

if the only love you had ever known was conditional, so was the absence of it.

In her experience, the moment you showed you were weak in front of someone, they'd use it against you.

Employment does not necessarily protect people from precarious living.

I was a shy kid and I was afraid what I said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever said anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.

He made the mistake of imagining that his possessions were a measure of his own worth, and strutted and crowed, parading his things like a schoolboy with a champion catapult.

She had that look - scared and sort of paralysed but frantic underneath - that girls got when they could think of only the one thing. It was a look that told him it would be her first time.

What has this new generation to offer the world? Only the fruits of their fear.

If you desire the praise of man, you will fear man. If you fear man, you will serve him-for you will serve what you fear.

Why do they hate us so much anyway?' I asked after a lengthy pause. 'If they're not queer themselves, then what does it matter to them if someone else is?' 'I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,' she said with a shrug.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see.

In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not know why I was born this way.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see, said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. That's true, she said. But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power, they fear a change of the world order.

If there's one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe.

Dracula would have felt less fear examining his own reflection.

Control madness causes severe relationship problems. There is no way to be intimate with a partner who distrusts you. Intimacy demands that each partner accept the other just the way he or she is.

Perhaps the deepest and most devastating aspect of neurotic shame is the rejection of the self by the self.

Shyness can become a serious problem when it is rooted in toxic shame.