Quotes About Insecurity

People are probably not happy with their lives if they're busy discussing yours.

People who have no LIFE will always try to start DRAMA in yours.

Most people will smile at you and be nice; not because they like you or happy for you, but because they can see that you're about to hit the ground. They feel better about themselves when they see someone struggle in life.

The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

I brought them to my mouth. But my courage failed. What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.

Je finirais par bien connaître ce type d'homme, jaloux de son maigre pouvoir, pour qui je n'étais qu'une femme.

I sat frozen, afraid to move lest I give myself away. I am bound to this war.

He saw me watching and rubbed self-consciously at his calloused hands. "I know I am ugly to you." No, I thought. My grandfather's halls are filled with shining nymphs and muscled river-gods, but I would rather gaze on you than any of them.

I did not think-'' He could not say it, could not put all his hopes into the proper words. I did not think you could love me. I did not think I could be enough for you to stay. You are the earth, the sky, the sun and the stars and I cannot fathom all that you are, all that you mean to me.

You have never deserved him. I do not know why he ever loved you. You care only for yourself!

Y a pesar de lo herido que me sentía, bajo ningún concepto deseaba verle marchar ni contemplarle nervioso y temeroso, como el resto de nosotros.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.

And yet, at the same time, it feels disingenuous of me not to acknowledge that on a literal level, having a small body, a slender body, has long been related to my sense of self, even my sense of freedom.

The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was like being in a three legged race with someone you didn't like.

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small. Scared of being with Sephy, scared of being away from her.

He'll soon be as stuck-up as them.' Jude prodded me in the same place where he'd just punched me,

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

At heart most men are as terrified of women's infinite sexualcapacity as they are fascinated by it. The general effect on men isto make them feel sexually insecure and causes them to attempt tocompensate with some other strength. Sexual insecurity may bethe primary reason men have sought physical, political, financial,intellectual, and religious advantage over woman.