Quotes About Insecurity

I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary.

You are the only one I can trust about this," Ash said. Which was maybe just another version of what Cathy Kiplinger had said to Jules: you are weak.

Does that scare you? Are you afraid that if I take away the mysterious part of you, I won't like you anymore?

I was born like this. I came out of the womb saying, 'I'm worried that something's wrong with me. There's this weird growth between my legs!

I don't know if I love him. I'm stubborn about my love, stingy about it. It comes and goes at all the wrong times.

when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?

The New Coach. Did she look at us that first week and see past the glossed hair and shiny legs, our glittered brow bones and girl bravado? See past all that to everything beneath, all our miseries, the way we all hated ourselves but much more everyone else?

The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments--what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.

Don't take this personally, Kit, but your hands are really big. Did you hassle steer?" "No steer," I say. "Only small-handed men.

Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.

Joseph wore uncertainty poorly; it seemed to somehow misshape him. I heard in it everything he hid from the world, his own sense of worthlessness, the fear behind his ego.

The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.

He hadn't been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn't even been the first she'd loved. He'd been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He'd taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn't drowned.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup.

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

Still staring at the woman in the mirror, I hung up the phone. She looked as if she was going to cry. I felt bad for her, that woman with the dark hair, the one who only ever wore black and white. The one who might have been pretty if she'd only take care of herself, if only she weren't smarter, if only she didn't earn more money. I felt sorry for her but envied her, too, because she, at least, could cry and I could not.

gente que piensa que su valor está relacionado con su masa corporal. Hombres obsesionados con el gimnasio, y mujeres que piensan que morirse de hambre es sexy.

Brandi is mean skinny, that kind that doesn't come naturally and makes her face look all hallow and scary.

Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.

Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

People like myself, are self-conscious about their appearance.

Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!