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Quotes About Insecurities

People tend to get nervous when you stare at them. They are racked with enough insecurities as it is. They always look away, glance back quickly and look away again. Some part of them melts and as they attempt to gather themselves, their flesh forms puddles at their feet.
~ Scott C. Holstad
Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of snot, throats sore as hell, we've got scabs on us, we suffer bouts of acne, we've got no girls ... What more reasons do we need?
~ Markus Zusak
Pimples were gathered in peer groups
~ Markus Zusak
people with weight issues often feel judged and attacked, partly because they spend so much time judging and attacking themselves.
~ Martha N. Beck
So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselves. We're sitting in the darkness beyond the flickering warmth of your fire, cackling into our caldrons and spitting out spider webs of words, all the time sucking the sickness from your minds and spewing it out into the night.
~ Stephen King
All of my insecuritiesshine in the dark.
~ Lori Jenessa Nelson
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?
~ Lana Del Rey
The little office, scarcely large enough to contain Dr. Irene's desk at one end and the couch at the other, held a world of memories for Lily. Here, fifty minutes at a time, two or three times a week, she'd spilled out her hopes and fears, her childhood nightmares and adolescent insecurities – in a sense, she'd grown up in this room.
~ Jonathan Nasaw
In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.
~ Guy Standing
Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.
~ Carrie-Anne Moss
Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.
~ Linda Ronstadt
I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.
~ David Oyelowo
People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.
~ Jon Bellion
Not only in our family, where our relatives keep putting us down, but even in this modern urbanized culture, we girls put our fellow girls down by judging them.
~ Nikita Dutta
I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.
~ Anton du Beke
I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.
~ Grant Morrison
I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
~ Taylor Swift
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange.
~ Judith Durham
I'm always worried that lipstick is on my teeth or caked in the corners of my mouth.
~ Chyler Leigh
Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.
~ Jennifer Saunders
After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem issues. Clothes shopping stopped being fun and became a chore; I couldn't wear the curve-showing styles I loved without Spanx - and I worried that my new body would affect my training.
~ Michelle Carter
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't affect the conversations I have in my head about life, and worries and fears and insecurities.
~ Zach Braff