Quotes About Insecurity

I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own.

Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

Eric the Evil scowled. Well, hell. He was jealous of himself.

marks around her neck. She tilted her head and smiled at me. I swallowed. I was never going to drink anything again. How could I pee with Christie around?

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

The moment someone tells you you're not good enough, is the moment you know you're better than them.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.

rather than raising us, their children, from a place of love, they raised us in fear. Doesn't it stand to reason that their fear would shape the adults we become? Anxious, plagued by a constant sense that something, everything, is wrong. Their fear has crippled us, and our inability to function only feeds our anxiety. We are failing at life. So now all we are is failure.

Who are you trying to protect, punish or please by not succeeding?

She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Bütün hayat?m?z? yersiz çekingenliklerle mi geçirece?iz Olric? Cesareti yaln?z kafam?zda m? ya?ayaca??z?

Tutunamayan(disconnectus erectus): Beceriksiz ve korkak bir hayvand?r. ?nsan boyunda olanlar? bile vard?r. ?lk bak??ta, d?? görünü?üyle, insana benzer. Yaln?z pençeleri ve özellikle t?rnaklar? çok zay?ft?r. Dik arazide yoku? yukar? hiç tutunamaz. Yoku? a?a?? kayarak iner…

Hüsamettin Albay?m! Hamlet ya?asayd? ?imdi tümgeneral olmu?tu, de?il mi?

Nereden ba?layaca??m? bilmiyorum: tereddüt-ler içindeyim. Kimse de yard?m etmiyor. Asistan ba??ma di-kildi. Benden iki sat?r fazla bilmenin gururu içinde. OysaGauss'un yan?nda benim gibi o da bir hiç. Fark?nda de?il.

Comme la plupart des hommes peu intelligents et de muscles développés, il est d'une grande timidité.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.

The police," my father told them, "may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.

I'm a fifty-three year old writer who can remember being a ten-year old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year old writer. I am also comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of Seattle - a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Rape, robbery, and now murder. Of course I think about it. Everyone thinks about it. Everyone worries. I wish I could get out of here.' 'Where would you go?' 'That's it, isn't it? There's nowhere to go.' 'There might be.' 'Not if you don't have money. Not if all you know how to do is take care of babies and cook.