Quotes About Insecurity

And he knew that, but all his life he'd been treated like crap to the point that he believed he was crap. He'd never done anything good and nobody had ever said anything positive about him.

I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.

Do you think I look like Sophia Loren?' I ask him as we get into the car. 'I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Loren.' He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. 'Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?' 'Not just "some guy",' I tell him. 'The guy.

Pero ¿Qué ocurrirá con nosotros cuando tu no estés bien? Nos volveremos patéticos, incluso más de lo que soy yo ahora. Así que, ¿Por qué iba a querer yo que alguien lo sea todo para mi, si un día puede dejar de estar cerca? ¿Entonces qué quedara de mi?

I'm a waste of space.

I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

la gente con tanta personalidad me asusta terriblemente. Hacen que quiera ser mejor persona, sabiendo que no me es posible.

Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they're told because they are hungry to get approval.

Just wait until that husband of yours rolls over and goes to sleep without bothering to touch you in six months, Just wait until there's nothing at all between the sheets and you dry up and feel worthless and look in the mirror and begin to believe it's your fault he doesn't want you. Just wait until it dawns on you one day that the real reason he doesn't want you is because he doesn't want himself.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

When I was a child, I believed that what I want mattered so little that it wasn't even worth me discovering what it might be.

because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.

Because I can tell you happy endings do not occur when there are three people involved in a relationship story. Someone gets hurt. Always.

Because if you even make a tiny bit of room in either of those places for anyone else, then something in your relationship isn't right.

Tell me i'm not losing more of you to him every fucking day. -Seth

Being home always made her feel like she was walking on a high wire, waiting for a gust of wind to knock her to the ground. The

They are consumed by the fear of desire.

We are all persons courtesy of someone else, and since we need others to perceive us in order to experience ourselves, it is very hard to like yourself when those nearest you seem to doubt your worth. And when those around you don't see you as you want to see yourself, it is only too easy to lose the way and start auditioning instead for them.

Power is anathema to intimacy, as it is to love, because when you have power, you have fear. So if you are trying to get closer to someone than you are right now, try recognizing their power rather than showing them yours.

I know insecurity is unattractive. I hate this side of me. I don't really hate this side of me. I think other people will hate it so I hate it preemptively to ward off the unbearable feeling of having my shortcomings pointed out by other people. I want to get there before anyone else and stake my claim on hating my jealousy so no one else can.

Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son," he said bitterly. Over and over he disparaged her, and George would have thought that Beatrice would be so used to it, she could not be hurt further. But he saw her neck grow stiffer and stiffer.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.