Quotes About Insecurity

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Es verdad que siempre he tenido miedo de que la gente no me quisese tal y como yo soy, ese es mi temor más grande, pero a lo mejor faltaba la clave, el por qué.

The gods are jealous and men are fools.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Vidiš", re?e on sjedaju?i, "to je ?udno, ali pronalazimo svakojake razloge ne bismo li sprije?ili sebe da volimo, zato što se plašimo da ?emo patiti, da ?emo jednog dana biti ostavljeni. Volimo, me?utim, život, iako znamo da ?e nas on jednog dana napustiti.

Elle lui expliqua que les adultes avaient peur de toutes sortes de choses, peur de vieillir, peur de mourir, peur de ce qu'ils n'ont pas vécu, peur de la maladie, parfois même du regard des enfants, peur qu'on les juge.

It is always important to realize that people attack what is unfamiliar to them.

But then again, what do I know. I project. Then I judge.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I

I think a lot of comedy comes from hypersensitivity, from being too vulnerable to deal with life and needing to preemptively protect yourself.

My brain loves obsessions. If it can make me hate myself, then it's all the better.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.

Comedians in their infancy are generally selfish, irresponsible, emotionally retarded, morally dubious, substance-addicted animals who live out of boxes and milk crates. They are plagued with feelings of failure and fraudulence. They are prone to fleeting fits of manic grandiosity and are completely dependent on the acceptance and approval of rooms full of strangers, strangers the comedian resents until he feels sufficiently loved and embraced. Perhaps I am only speaking for myself here.

and they also knew that they were undefended.3

Rien ne rend plus léger parfois qu'une certaine horreur de soi.

O ciúme nada mais é muitas vezes do que uma inquieta necessidade de tirania aplicada às coisas do amor.

We fear more than the loss of anything else the disappearance of possessions that have remained outside ourselves, because our hearts have not taken possession of them.

When you come to live with a woman, you will soon cease to see anything of what made you love; though it is true that the two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

Jealousy is often only an anxious need to be tyrannical applied to matters of love.

If only I could value myself more! Alas! It is impossible.

John Patrick Shanley

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

She doesn't love you. She loves herself. I mean, you're not going to be able to compete with that.