Insecurity Quotes

“I know⁠—I know I said before I wasn't like you... It's not true. I'm enough like you to know how you feel. Wanting how others look, what they have, who they have! Everyone else's life seems so much easier... But that's all you know! What you want! You don't know what's going on inside anyone else's head.”
― Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

“Start healing those wounds and understand that your insecurities were manufactured. You were not yourself—you were manipulated. The real you is kind, loving, open-minded, and compassionate. You do not need to question these things anymore.”
― Jackson MacKenzie, Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, & Other Toxic People

“You don't question someone's loyalty when they make you feel secure by expressing their love for you.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“Insecure and unfulfilled people cannot help but be jealous. Only inner security and individual fulfilment as a person will reduce jealousy until, one day, it disappears. It will be replaced by a calm confidence, a steady happiness, a strong resilience, and an interesting, beautiful life. If we keep our eyes on our own path in life, we will lose the egotistical pride which frequently accompanies success and also makes us vulnerable to a fall. When things go well, we will be grateful. When they do not, we will be patient. We will accept success with ease and perspective, and failure with tolerance.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“How many times have you said, 'If I looked a little different, I'd be drowning in love?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Security, alas, can give
A threatening impression;
Too much defense-initiative
Can prompt aggression.”
― Richard Wilbur, New And Collected Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

“Arrogance is insecurity’s favorite mask.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Arrogance is insecurity’s favor mask”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is Chaos (The Sonnet)

Best laid plans of mice and men,
Often go awry leaving no hope.
Just when you think you have control,
Life throws you off course.
All notions of order are a myth,
Only order of the universe is chaos.
Expand your sight and you'll realize,
There is order in every chaos.
A narrow mind is ever struggling,
In the tangled web of order and chaos.
A sapient mind works above the two,
For their sight is fixed on a purpose.
Focus on life, not on all its philosophy.
Embrace the chaos and act despite insecurity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Fear No Fear (The Sonnet)

I have zero tolerance for fear,
I don't mean intolerance of being afraid.
Let the fear come and go,
Just never let it make you slave.
Embrace it all, and the grip will slowly loosen,
Then take care of the cause of your fear.
It is quite human to have cold feet on occasion,
Just know, your backbone is your savior.
Fear resisted is fear amplified,
Fear embraced is fear relieved.
Most fears are rooted in imagination,
Observe yourself and all is revealed.
You are the ultimate answer to your own fear.
Study yourself without coldness, and all will be clear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“I got in the car and headed home, wondering if I would ever tell Kay that I didn't have a woman because sex tasted like blood and resin and suture scrub to me.”
― James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia

“Sup, Bro?” I questioned, gawking at Mandisa’s window. “You didn’t get my calls?”

“What calls?” Hakim queried, halting short of the chair. He checked his pants pocket, and I bobbed, peering at the trails of prints in the snow. “Oh, damn, Bro! My bad…it’s been on vibrate. I didn’t even feel it, I guess.”

“You were probably too busy with your pants down,” I snickered to myself. Obviously, He was doing HIM…didn’t waste any time, either…I see you… “Where’s Queen?”
― Sistar SunRA, King of Clubs

“Life in People (The Sonnet)

A rich egotist came and said,
You 'n I are quite the same you see,
You control people with words,
I control people with money.
I burst out in laughter 'n replied,
I feel sorry for you, o poor mental.
You look for life in the palace,
While I found my life in people.
You keep hoarding luxury,
While I chose a life of simplicity.
You crawl all life fearing death,
I made friends out of death ‘n destiny.
You stay aloof on pedestal patronizing people.
I labor at love’s altar egalitarianizing people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Live and let go. We hold on too tightly, forgetting that all will be lost. To live is not to stay in the shallow waters of our fears of ineptitude, of our insecurity. To live is to swim into the deep; alone, but not lonely; afraid, but with courage; content with all that is, marveling at the ambiguous, miraculous wonder of being.”
― Tor Syvrud, Perennial Spring: A Guide to Mental Health and Personal Freedom

“Insecurities are pointless
Jealousy is a waste of time
Not living up to your potential
Is a spiritual crime”
― Aida Mandic, A Maniac Did

“My deepest, darkest fear was then realized. I was nobody.”
― Laura C. Reden, Dark Reflections

“Our setbacks would take on a different meaning. Instead of looking like confidence-destroying evidence of our incapacities, they would much more readily strike us as proof that we were on the standard path to what we admire. We’d interpret our worries, reversals and troubles as unavoidable landmarks, not aberrations or fateful warnings.

Confidence isn’t the belief that we won’t meet obstacles: it is the recognition that difficulties are an inescapable part of all worthwhile contributions.”
― The School of Life, On Confidence

“Branding companies use Psychology
To manipulate and play with people's insecurity

Wearing a Brand name product does not make you better.
In reality, you are just suffering from Social Comparison disorder.”
― Ricardo Derose

“If nothing bothers you, it doesn't mean you are stable, it means you are dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“I don't know what I grow more tired of. The scars on my face or the self-depricating thoughts in the relation to the scars on my face.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“People don't feel uncomfortable when they look at you because of your scars, Fallon. They're uncomfortable because you make people feel like looking at you is wrong.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved.”
― Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body

“Insecurity is like a seed that doesn’t believe it is a tree.”
― Lauren Martin

“Cast Fiction To The Wind (The Sonnet)

The candle's purpose is to be lost in light,
The heart's purpose is to be lost in love.
The ocean may try the sailor all it wants but,
The naive sailor is lost in the ocean's love.
The sailor and the sea are not two but one,
The candle and the light are not two but one.
The heart and love are not two but one,
Individual and collective are not two but one.
Purpose of human is conquest over the inner animal,
Purpose of a human is the expansion of humanity.
Everybody grows old, not everybody grows up,
To die without growing up, is the greatest tragedy.
Life is too short to be wasted on half-cocked may be's!
Cast fiction to the wind, and make the most of reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“When you allow your fear or your insecurity or your unrealistic belief in perfection too control you, you are betraying that possibility of life. You are saying that you do not have faith in the artistic child born of the union between your imagination and your talent. You are measuring your art by your own standards of excellence rather than trusting your art and letting it make its way into the hearts of others by its own devices.”
― Kent Nerburn, Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art

“When it's chaotic slide the chaos with no words but one more chaos in view. When life is chaotic be flexible party on chaos make art Be fearless daunting ~”
― Patricio Telman Chincocolo

“I stood in front of the black dress, staring it down. I felt like it had taken an aggressive stance against me instead of merely hanging limply from the hanger. It was like a scene from a film noir. One of us wasn’t going to make it out alive.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Fear resisted is fear amplified,
Fear embraced is fear relieved.
Most fears are rooted in imagination,
Observe yourself and all is revealed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Fear resisted is fear amplified, fear embraced is fear relieved.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Even as God displayed His power over and over, they still preferred to fit in with their neighbors more than stand out with God.”
― Dwayne Morris, Chasing Donkeys: When God Redirects Your Steps