Insecurity Quotes

“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive.
I'm not.
I'm an artist.
Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)”
― Joan Bauer

“A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

“There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I am One. I value my uniqueness. If there were more like me I would hope they were small and easy to destroy.”
― Ben Hatke, Flight Explorer, Volume 1

“The worst kind of hoarding is keeping money stashed inside lockers or bank accounts, to use it God knows when. It’s not simple living, but extreme insecurity.”
― Abhaidev, Notes from the Edge of Sanity

“There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one’s physician.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“My need to show what I can do is keeping me from finding out what other people can do and what we can do together.”
― Kate Murphy

“But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“An insecure mind is highly reactive. Don’t act until you have thought over it.”
― Haresh Sippy

“One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.”
― Joe Hill

“What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.”
― Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

“Casting stones at the perceived irritations of others merely shatters our shadow-self mirror.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Because any time I’d given someone a part of myself that was vulnerable, they’d crushed it. There was no point trying. Not when I needed too much. When my heart was an open, gaping black hole—and I was “too much” for anyone to handle.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“And maybe I didn’t know how to love myself yet—but I knew with bone-deep certainty how to love George-Arthur Milton.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“From this there sprang an ever-present sense of insecurity together with a distrust of the homely things he cherished. With what familiar object⁠—quill, pipe, pack of cards⁠—would he be occupied, in which regular recurrent action⁠—the pulling on or off of his nightcap, the weekly auditing of his accounts⁠—would he be engaged when IT, the hidden menace, sprang out at him? And he would gaze in terror at his furniture, his walls, his pictures⁠—what strange scene might they one day witness, what awful experience might he one day have in their presence?

Hence, at times, he would gaze on the present with the agonizing tenderness of one who gazes on the past: his wife, sitting under the lamp embroidering, and retailing to him the gossip she had culled during the day; or his little son, playing with the great mastiff on the floor.

This nostalgia for what was still there seemed to find a voice in the cry of the cock, which tells of the plough going through the land, the smell of the country, the placid bustle of the farm, as happening now, all round one; and which, simultaneously, mourns them as things vanished centuries ago.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“[Securing Tomorrow]

I watch with sadness
as most people busy themselves
accumulating more money,
winning more promotions,
building larger houses,
buying additional properties
and possessions,
new cars,
ever more goods
and consumer luxuries.
I see them consumed
by the desire to possess
everything their hands can reach,
all in order to secure tomorrow,
to guarantee a life
of comfort and abundance.
Yet few realize
that tomorrow may never come.
And if it does,
it may arrive
sad,
frightening,
and desolate.
Few realize
that it may not rain tomorrow,
that the earth may grow dry,
and that this very obsession
with acquiring more and more
is precisely what will lead humanity
toward its ruin,
after exhausting
every possible form of life.
Few have understood
that fear,
panic,
and the relentless need
to secure tomorrow
are precisely what have made
tomorrow so uncertain.
What a bitter paradox.

7 February 2024”
― Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

“Sometimes it feels like there’s an invisible comment section floating around in my brain, and with every mistake I make, every wrong thing I say, these imaginary spectators who vaguely resemble my classmates from my old schools flock forward to pass judgment.”
― Ann Liang, Never Thought I'd End Up Here

“There is just something devastating about letting the one person who’s admiration you crave more than anything else seeing you at your weakest.”
― MsCFH

“Maybe all along, I hadn’t had to try so hard. Maybe the only person who’d been expecting perfection had been myself. Maybe my imperfections were what made me perfect. Happy accidents that built the person I had become. It might take me a long time to really believe that, but…I’d have to try.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“Where feelings are denied, insecurity takes root.”
― Omar Delawar

“A secure heart seeks understanding, while an insecure one seeks control.”
― Omar Delawar

“Fools believe that those who love them are fools.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“I have written this book to try to help others of any age endure the unfortunate things that unexpectedly happen to each of us, the nagging feelings of insecurity, and the little voice in all our heads always saying, ‘You'll never be good enough.”
― Margie Goldsmith, Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce

“We have been friends for so long, I can’t imagine that I would just be another stop on his list.”
― Brigid Au, Tied Together

“who wish for more and less / who never know how to dress / shy and talkative / insecure and ugly and beautiful”
― Arabella Leyla

“It’s like she reached into my chest and tugged on my deepest insecurity. There’s nothing I hate more than feeling inadequate. That’s the root of all the trauma from my past. Nothing I did was ever enough. I wasn’t good enough. Wasn’t pure enough. Wasn’t Christian enough. It transferred over to my schoolwork, too, to all my sports and hobbies. If I wasn’t the best, the feeling of inadequacy suffocated me. I worked harder, studied longer, practiced more. All the while, I wasn’t chasing the wins or the straight As. I was chasing the feeling of finally being enough.”
― Emily Rath, Devour Me

“Jamás seré lo bastante bueno, ni siquiera para que me mire.”
― Susanna Herrero, Solo un juego más