Quotes About Insecurity

A person] will desire any object so long as he is convinced that it is desired by another person whom he admires.

I'm afraid," she confessed, her voice quiet. "Of what?" "That if the box is opened I might want and want and never be filled." She took a breath. "That you will get tired of filling it." She paused and spoke her deepest fear, turning to his ear. "That you will use me and throw me away.

They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you did it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it.

A scared man is only half a man.

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

She saw a roach pass by her foot, and she instantly lifted it up and brought it down on the roach. She didn't want anyone to see her shame. Not even roaches.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

But it was that core group of popular girls who moved in a pack, like wolves, and loved to pick on anyone weaker than them who made it quite clear that I did not belong.

JF: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Qué voy a hacer para no ser tan raro, Dios mío, cuándo voy a ser capaz de enfrentar a los desconocidos, cuándo me van a pasar estas ganas de ser invisible, Dios, que no me miren

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Rosy. Indeed! Good lack, good lack, to think of the instability of human affairs! Nothing certain in this world — most deceived when most confident — fools of fortune all.

He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him.

It didn't help that Carlos was always badmouthing himself as a neurotic. I had to agree with him. Like the psychiatrist who told his patient: Don't worry about having an inferiority complex. You're inferior.

She was a mousy woman, uncomfortable in her own body. Laverne detested women who filled the air with their discomfort, their body apologizing for their very existence. They tried so hard to take such little space that they ended up filling every room.

The recognition that what we have seen is the rise of an insecure narcissism – particularly among young people – rather than a rise in genuine self?esteem now seems widely accepted.

could not bear to think that they might love another woman . . . I dare not let them go to the embraces of anyone else . . .

they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.

It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.

That's the way people is who ain't goin' anyplace in life theirselves. They don't want you goin' anyplace either.

Insecurity will always be a growth industry. The economy now depends on fear.

Scopophobia hits them all—fear of seeing and being seen. A dog will bite if you stare at it too hard. People will shoot you.

there are not many horrors as efficient for the generation of deep anger and terrible lifelong insecurity as the inability of a father to protect his child.

Less obviously, the resurgence of capital punishment in modern America exposes the insecurity of U.S. authorities with the increase in violent crime, which challenges government monopoly of violence.