Quotes About Insecurity

Jael feared it was true, that she was shallow, dissolute. Trendy.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

I don't think I like you," she said. "This has been a recurring theme in my life

he wasn't much of a natural in anything. This was something he sensed early and hid with overcompensation, which is why so many of his training squad members thought he was an asshole.

I think that a lot of the drive to have overachieving children is defensive—the idea of making sure your child is fully armed against all the other kids, whose parents are busy packing their little brains with facts so they can claw their way into the Ivy League over the broken bodies of their classmates. While

Shit-buckets are everywhere, but if you are afraid of being chained to them, then you are already chained to them.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Through my own efforts, I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.

You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have.

Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

All this is a preface to the fear and uncertainties which clamber over a man so that in his silly work he thinks he must be crazy because he is so alone.

Casy gathered in his canvas sneakers and shoved his bare feet into them. I ain't got your confidence, he said. I'm always scared there's wire or glass under the dust. I don't know nothin' I hate so much as a cut toe.

You what. Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy. You seen little guys like that, ain't you? Always scrappy?

And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

How could I compete with a debtless man?

Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch.

Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy.

Her life is one of revenge on other people because of a vague feeling of her own lack. A man born blind must in a sense hate eyes as well as envy them. A blind man might wish to remove all of the eyes in the world.

men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.