Insecurity Quotes

“For a long time I have had the recurring and sentimental wish that I could go back to the early 1990s and just hold onto my younger self, tightly, the way she needed, and not pay attention to her protestations that she was 'fine.' Because I know what I would say to her. I would embrace her and I would tell her that I know she is lonely, that I know she feels lost, that I know she feels worthless. And then, because she is not me, and because she is me, I would assure her that there is something about her, something amazing, something lovable, something special, something beautiful, something fragile, something strong, something worth fighting for.”
― Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

“One day you will find your feet. Right now they are hidden under you.

One day you will again lose the sight of your feet. By then learn to remain grounded.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Let’s just have each other to patronize.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“Superficiality breeds insecurity, simplicity breeds contentment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“There are plenty of days when I don’t hear anything like that, but there aren’t too many days when I don’t feel as though . . . I don’t know. It always feels like other guys want me to disappear. Every day. I can tell they just wish I didn’t exist.”
― Kenneth Logan, True Letters from a Fictional Life

“Fearmongering works because we allow it to: we play our part in the cycle of fear, blame, and hatred. We allow ourselves to respond in kind to hatred and to hit back, even though we know our actions will only escalate the hatred. We learn to hate, too. We become the equivalent opposite of those who hate us. Yet we think that our hate is righteous, excused by the hatred we have so long endured. But hatred is still hatred. It is still cold. It is still dead. And it is still dehumanizing.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“...and his desperation had made him cruel.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“All I saw were flaws- the spots on my chin, the hint of baby fat around the jaw, the way my unruly flyaway hair wisped out from the elastic band.

"Look," he said. "The reason it's not coming together is because you're drawing the features, not the person. You're more than a collection of frown lines and doubts. The person I see when I look at you..." He stopped and I waited, feeling his eyes on me, trying not to squirm beneath the intensity of his gaze. "I see someone brave," he said at last. "I see someone who's trying very hard. I see someone who's nervous, but stronger than she knows. I see someone who's worried but doesn't need to be."

"Draw that." " Draw the person I see.”
― Ruth Ware, The Lying Game

“Gentleness breeds sanity, anger breeds insanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Not Trusting doesn't equal insecurity, it's ok not to Trust People, it doesn't make you abnormal however too much Negativity and Jealousy can lead to insecurity”
― OMA AKUMA

“[I]nsecurity’s sentinel symptoms are anxiety and fear. Anger and confrontation tend to be exactly the wrong tools to change the behavior or win the hearts of people who are afraid and anxious. Rage and recrimination only make them more afraid. It forces them deeper into a defensive posture.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“Beyond fear there is clarity - beyond weakness there is victory - beyond insecurity there is life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“[T]he insecurity of the affluent in an unequal society, driven to acquire to protect their affluence, to guard their position lest they drop in class and join the marginalized.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“Segregation changes the character of a neighborhood. As wealth leaves, poverty concentrates in a community, reshaping its businesses, lowering the quality of its schools, and devaluing its homes—the most criticial wealth assets of low-income homeowners.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“[M]ost bureaucracies are self-oriented: too often they ask how a new program or service would best be organized within the bureacracy rather than how best to organize it around the people we want to serve.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide

“As the economy accelerates inequality, our government becomes ever more critical as a tool for empowering those losing out. And yet we find that, because of the porous barrier between our economy and our politics, politics only furthers that inequality; the slow, piecemeal corruption of our politics contributes to our insecurity.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“[T]he paradoxical insecurity of the wealthy[: t]he fear of some future material insecurity compels [the wealthy] to put more space between themselves and the materially insecure, and in hoarding resources and creating and sustaining systems that accelerate inequality, they perpetuate the insecurity under which so many suffer.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“If we mistakenly assume that identity stands in for the system of power that elevates certain kinds of people, our analysis risks vilifying and demonizing the wrong people.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“[T]he insight of the identity politics of empathy: that all of us struggle under the weight of the insecurity epidemic, and all of us must be welcome in the movements to take it on.”
― Abdul El-Sayed

“[I]nsecurity’s sentinel symptoms are anxiety and fear.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“[I]nsecurity makes inclusion seem like a radical proposition. That’s because insecurity thinks in zero-sum terms, it warns us that our resources are scarce—that we cannot invite others because provisions are already short. Insecurity makes necessary enemies out of potential allies.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“[T]he system that has created and sustained the epidemic of insecurity in this country relies on a network of tokens to placate the communities that suffer most.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“Being willing to invest in a solution hinges on believing that government can accomplish what it sets out to do. But as a society, we seem to have given up on government as a critical component of the solution. That leaves key problems unsolved, which drives our insecurity. But our insecurity keeps us from believing that government can take on those problems. Rise and repeat. Insecurity perpetuates itself.”
― Abdul El-Sayed, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

“Secure leaders multiply and compound leadership in an organization. Insecure leaders successfully undermine.”
― Krishna Saagar Rao

“She tells me she's been reading a terrible book called "How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right" Their main advice is to play hard to get. Basically it's a guide to manipulation. I say that maybe she should stop reading it. "I know, " she says, only half agreeing. "But it's like I've been trying to catch a fish by swimming around with them. I keep making myself get in the water again. I try different rivers. I change my strokes. But nothing works. Then I find the guide that tells me about fishing poles and bait, and how to cast and what to do when the line gets taut," She stops and thinks. "The depressing part is that you know it will work." I say "I hate fish.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“I don’t know why she never believes me when I call her beautiful. Maybe for the same reason I never believe her when she calls me the same. We’re so used to being outside the normal that it’s difficult to see ourselves as anything other than bitterly-remembered insults. It may take a lifetime of calling each other beautiful before we acknowledge that we truly are.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“If I was going to stop holding myself back, I couldn't live from my insecurity anymore. And since I still felt insecure, I had to find something bigger than myself to be my motivation.”
― Emily Grabatin, Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life's Crossroads

“They may not look like it, but every single one of them is shut up in their own rooms. Their fears, their insecurities, their joys and hopes and dreams … all shut up in there. They only let you see what they’re comfortable with you seeing, you know... Suffering hits everyone in its own way.”
― Emmanuel Onimisi, The Curious Case of Doctor Maundy

“You give me pleasure unspeakable, unimaginable. And I wasn't avoiding you,' he spoke into the softness of her hair. 'At least, not voluntarily. I was giving you the chance to end the physical relationship, to end the honeymoon if you wanted to.' He pulled back to look at her tear-wet face. 'You don't want to, do you?' he realised huskily.

'Never!' She buried her face against his chest.”
― Carole Mortimer, Lifelong Affair

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another---physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye