Quotes About Insecurity

I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.

The life of comparison is deadly. One is always more than or less than and it is based upon a brief proof which tends to be seen as emotional but is in fact bereft of emotion. Comparison is so subtle a force it exposes itself in the guise of emotion to protect its own cunning from being seen as the judgmental emphasis it is.

I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Remembering the fatherless feeling, the longing to be picked up and tossed into the air and caught with a laugh, and carried on a shoulder ride as his father-protector strode fearless through the world.

And yet. . . and yet, the ancient scar of Adam within his nature dragged him inexorably back, again and again, to this desire for certainty.

It's something else, something in me that wants things always to remain the same, always safe. It's a basic fear of life, I guess. I've never admitted that to anyone, and I guess I've never admitted it to myself, but it's the truth.

Terror and shame go hand in hand. There is fear in realizing that we are helpless to persuade others that we are human. In that moment

His eldest daughter, Alice, once described her father as wanting to be the "bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral."1

Strong men are not the ones you have to worry about, it's weak man that you have to worry about, putting authority and power in the hands of weak people, because when people who never had anything throughout their life, now have power over you, boy do they abuse it.

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

armed, Crosetti found, felt a lot like having a broken zipper on your fly, something that made you feel self-conscious and

This is what my lifelong search for room to maneuver had come to: a box of water in a lightless, windowless nine-by-sixteen-foot room—afraid to leave my artificial womb, to go outside where I could only cause trouble, disappoint my family and myself. Best, I thought, to stay right here where I couldn't fuck anything up. And stay I would, day after day, sometimes three or four times on weekends, for hours at a time, just trying to keep my head below water. Connecticut—Christmas

I am as f@#ked up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional (i.e., 'FINE') as the next person; however, it has surprisingly little impact on my enjoyment of life or effectiveness in the world.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

The very first child to introduce himself will be the one with the fewest friends.

Audie had never been a hater, because when people hate with too much energy it's normally something about themselves they hate the most.

No matter how beautiful women are, they're always worried that they aren't attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don't, but even they appreciate the attention.

Maybe that was it - they were just afraid. Strange, they have me outnumbered and outgunned, but they're still so afraid. It's amazing the amount of cowardice privilege can afford.

What are you scared of?" he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. "Everything," I told him. "I'm scared of everything.

He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark

And it was not only calls from friends worried about him, but staffers calling people to call him and say Simmer down. "Who do you have in there?" said Joe Scarborough in a frantic call. "Who's the person you trust? Jared? Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?" "Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.