Quotes About Insecurity

But there's nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone's a little scared. Even the government.

Times change, faces change but the doubt remains, the fear remains-

I don't believe in God. But I do believe in doubt. I do believe in fear.

Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.

The greater our attachment to that which is outside of ourselves, the greater is our overall level of fear and vulnerability to loss.

The way you can spot a false system is that the leaders require the place of honor. It is our belief that the less secure a leader is, the more important titles will be to him or her.

in Moscow, being paranoid doesn't mean doom is not on the way.

When we look deeply into our fears, we see that, at base, every fear is a fear of not having control

God is an American. I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. I'm afraid I can't help it. I'm afraid I can't

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was dead wrong. It's the absence of fear that we should fear.

It's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you.

His expressions of psychological depression in his notebooks (such as "Every thing I have done seems to me blank and suspicious") doubtless lay behind brooding lines like these: The doubts of the daytime and the doubts of the nighttime.… the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so.… Or is it all flashes and specks?

I fear the good because it will go away … I fear the bad because I'm too weak to withstand it.

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the Bible meant when they used the words hell and the pit . . . It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't.

Capitalism implies and induces insecurity, which is constantly being exploited, of course, by all sorts of people selling things.

The Gremlin is the doubting voice inside your head that's always carping, always telling you that you're not doing things well enough, or that you should be doing something else

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.

As a teenager I was both prurient and prudish. I was so full of self-loathing that in my mind it was unthinkable that any girl would ever want me. I hated everything about myself. The way I looked. How I spoke. Even how I thought. In my head I believed myself to be completely and utterly unworthy of love. My life had only just begun but I felt that I had already ruined it.

Just to check she's not going out." "Going

No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and died.

I had a familiar, nervous sensation, one that goes all the way back to elementary school. It's the simultaneous realization that I may have talked my way into another fistfight, and that I had not spent any time learning to fight since the last one.

So you see, fear is just another manifestation of insecurity. What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

Something was off, I knew right then. Lingering in the back of my mind, like a kid in the last row of the classroom with his hand up.