Quotes About Insecurity

If everything you say gets laughed at... then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart... ....shuts down... And your words die....

Yuki: "Honda-san... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head." Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

It's frightening that there's no guarantee that I'll be loved.

Even now someone might be envying another for something they don't see in themselves. They might be longing for a quality they already posses.

I'm so rude. 'If you have trouble with anything...' I don't deserve to have anyone say that to me! 'When you need help, ask for help!' If I asked for help, I would just be...spoiled. Because I haven't done anything yet. I haven't done a single thing. By myself... or starting with myself...I've always just gone with the flow.

I'm ashamed. I'm dishonest, weak, and dirty.

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of "What am I missing?

People don't procrastinate just to be ornery or because they're irrational. They procrastinate because it makes sense, given how vulnerable they feel to criticism, failure, and their own perfectionism.

In extreme cases of perfectionism, there is no distinction between judgment of one's work and one's sense of value as a person.

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

CARTER This isn't meant as a … you know, to make up for what I said or whatnot, but … my mom was fat. Is. LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 48). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

JEANNIE It's not like she's … She's really fat, Tom! A fat sow and you know it. I can tell you're aware by the way you're acting, which is really the puzzling part … TOM I-like-her. End of story.

CARTER Come on, be honest! The thing they represent that's so scary is what we could be, how vulnerable we all are. I mean, any of us. Some wrong gene splice, a bad backflip off the trampoline … too many cartons of Oreos! We're all just one step away from being what frightens us. What we despise. So … we despise it when we see it in anybody else.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

We are told to believe in ourselves," he said. "But I'm not sure that's what we are meant to do.

Vanity often roots itself in insecurity

One cannot successfully face an enemy while one is questioning one's own worth, and presuming the enemy is worth more.

But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was all silly invention on her part. Yet she could not. Not quite.

People who worry about what others think of them would be surprised at how little they did.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated.

jealousy was not about caring, it was about fear of loss: loss of love, loss of power, or loss of security.

He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that he himself could dream of achieving that any thought of writing instantly evaporated into the certainty of failure.