Quotes About Insecurity

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

Everybody's intrigued by someone comfortable in their own skin because most of us aren't.

Getting married had been all his idea, but he hadn't told her how very afraid of it he was. He seemed to need to force his way through it anyway, as he did with everything that scared him terribly. He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.

I was just as terrified that even if he did finally choose me, our love wouldn't be the lasting kind.

my doubt is loud,

Do you think I'll stop worrying when I know he loves me for sure?" "Just listen to yourself." "There's so much to lose." "There always is," she said.

When we'd settled out of earshot, she said, "Sorry if Blix and I scared you away last night. It's not often we're alone. Being married to other people will do that.

He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.

I didn't feel old enough to be anyone's wife, or that I knew enough or had lived enough, or understood the essential things. I didn't know how to say any of this to Jock, either. That I was afraid of the promises we'd made. That late at night as I lay beside him in bed I felt lonely and numb, as if some part of me had died.

Write, and do it now instead of capitalizing on your nice figure and your pretty hair. Stop being so charming." The sting of his words made me dizzy. My ears rang. "If I am charming it's your fault and Mother's." "You're just afraid to be lonely.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

Tania…where did you get all those freckles?" he asked softly. "I know, they're so annoying. It's the sun," she replied, blushing and touching her face as if wanting to scrub off the freckles that covered the bridge of her nose and spread in sprinkles under her eyes. Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart. "What about your blonde hair?" he continued, just as softly. "Is that the sun, too?

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.

Gya!! Stay away from me, weirdo! I'll press the burglar alarm!

The rich are always afraid.

La profesora Bellini se movía con la agilidad de los tímidos.

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.

I was younger, smarter, better educated than she, and I began to realize that she was afraid of me and the truths I told. By the

With insecure attachments, "a child unwittingly memorizes the precise lesson of that troubled relationship: that love is suffocation, that anger is terrifying, that dependence is humiliating, or one of a million crippling variations.

Children of mothers who are only sometimes available and who aren't reliably attuned adapt by being ambivalently attached. Because they don't know what to expect—is she going to be the nice mommy or the yelling one?—these children develop anxiety and insecurity about the maternal relationship and, as adults, a sense of all relationships as being essentially unreliable.

the people in my life didn't destroy me. i destroyed myself with intense feelings of inadequacy.

Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less.