Quotes About Insecurity

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people? I had a bigger hole to fill. What do you mean? A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.

Fitz feels as if he ought to say something, but he's not sure what. He feels a stupid urge to to apologize, for what exactly, he doesn't know. He knows that he says "sorry" a lot.

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.

As a young boy he was terrorised by his peers who teased him about the fact that he was adopted.

He blamed the male victims, for they represented the men who had sodomised him and stolen his manhood; and he blamed the females, for they represented the women who belittled him when he could not get an erection.

He did not want the girlfriends any longer but he also did not want anyone else to have them. This is yet another example of a serial killer treating his victims like objects because of a lack of socialisation during the latency phase.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.

La envidia la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.

Dime, Catarro, ¿por qué si uno sabe nadar flota sin moverse y cuando no sabe se hunde? – El miedo pesa, hijo.

If one does not expect perfect safety, recognizes that risks are inevitable, and succeeds in enjoying a less than ideally predictable world, the threat of insecurity will not have as great a chance of marring happiness.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

Hubert did not want to go into this room. He was scared and he felt vulnerable and the last think on earth he wanted was to try to make friends with these strangers. He wished with all his heart that Joyce were here with him. After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease. Look, it said to the world, I already have one friend so I can't be all that bad.