Quotes About Insecurity

I really would have liked to love, but I didnt trust myself to allow it.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

The one thing that has keeps me from love is doubt.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common

To be loved is very demoralizing

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

So lost for words, I long for you. My heart soars whenever I'm around you. Too scared to say that I like you, because what if you don't like me too?

I don't know why I get so protective and jealous over you when you're not even mine.

Everytime you speak about how much you like someone else, it kills me inside.

We've all at some point in our life encountered that feeling of secretly liking someone, secretly having your eyes on them, secretly wishing they knew, but deep inside you were afraid of what the outcome would be. So you kept it unnoticed. Kept it hidden, locked inside, just hoping that maybe one day that moment would finally come when they would notice you!

I don't know whether I am a louse under the white man's skin. I hope I am.

We'd avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God's wild affection for us.

I want you to stop being afraid,' she said gently. 'The good ones don't run away, Lia.

They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.

But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall.