Quotes About Insecurity

That scares me to death sometimes -- always feeling driven to do something I don't know how to do.

I couldn't move her. She was afraid, and that made her defensive.

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

I'm 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.

Crazy to live without a wall to protect you.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.

Being healthy is an insecure state and does not bode well. It's better to be ill in a quiet way, then at least we know what we're going to die of.

Opowie?? ma swoj? bezw?adno??, nad któr? nie mo?na nigdy do ko?ca zapanowa?. Domaga si? takich jak ja — niepewnych siebie, niezdecydowanych, ?atwych do wywiedzenia w pole. Naiwnych.

But I know that writing on bags is something people do only out of anxiety and uncertainty. Neither defeat nor the greatest success is conducive to writing.

Maddiyata düÅŸkün olanlar duygusal olarak daha güvensiz, daha düzeysiz kiÅŸisel iliÅŸkilere sahip, daha içtenliksiz, özerklik duygusu daha eksik, kendine güveni daha düÅŸük kimselerdir. Çocuk iseler, kendilerini baÅŸar?lar?na baÄŸl? olarak seven, onlar? maddiyatç? yetiÅŸtiren ana-babalar? vard?r.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

The weak fear happiness itself.

the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others. (I should add that I have very strong doubts as to whether even human beings really possess this faculty.)

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.