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Quotes About Insecurity

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)
~ Martha Wells
I had talked myself into believing that I hadn't actually lost it as much as I thought I had when Mensah had offered to let me hang out in the hub with the humans like I was an actual person or something.
~ Martha Wells
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
~ Martial
This is the kingdom of God, the kingdom of danger and of risk, of eternal beginning and eternal becoming, of opened spirit and of deep realization, the kingdom of holy insecurity.
~ Martin Buber
Cuanto mayor sea el grado de estrés, más temerosos, inseguros e inciertos nos sentimos y más irracional tiende a ser nuestro comportamiento.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Before you know what Annakey answered, you must know this: Annakey Rainsayer loved three things and feared only one thing. This makes her unusual from the beginning, for most of us love one thing——ourselves——and fear many things. Because we fear more things than we love, our lives are blown this way and that by our fears.
~ Martine Leavitt
nothing statusy about being stranded on the road. Designer-label companies charge more because they've spent a fortune on marketing and advertising to build their brand's status, their perceived value. I roll my eyes at people who, for example, wear Facconable shirts or Rolex watches. Right or wrong, I perceive them as so insecure that they need to attempt to appear worthy by silly spending.
~ Marty Nemko
With you guys, it seems like I'm hot stuff … a know-it-all … but I've been back with The Batman again, and next to him I feel like I'm a stupid kid repeating fifth grade … for the third time.
~ Unknown
jealousy is the grave of affection
~ Mary Baker Eddy
And I'm stabbed." She felt vulnerable and fought a rush of tears. "He's not going to hurt you," Adler said.
~ Mary Burton
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
~ D H Lawrence
No one loves the man whom he fears.
~ Aristotle
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
~ Unknown
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
~ Lord Byron
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
~ Bill Russell
Love is full of anxious fears.
~ Ovid
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.
~ Unknown
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
~ Jules Feiffer
Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?
~ Marilyn Monroe
I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld