523 Quotes About Insecurity

Throughout my career I’ve lived in constant fear that I wouldn’t be good enough, that I’d have nothing to say, that I’d be laughed at, humiliated—and I’m old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I’ll ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I’m supposed to write—the grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don’t quite know it. But I trust I’ll begin to know it soon.

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.

We hide our deepest insecurities and our brokenness from a world of judgement and hurt.

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their "superior" self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.

The shit thing about beauty is only another can redeem it. You can love yourself, but because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, those without beholders aren’t beautiful. They cannot trick themselves into thinking they are. Someone has to say it. Someone has to say, “You are beautiful.” One’s beauty is like the classic fallen tree; “If no one was near the tree when it fell, did it really fall?” If people called you a beautiful baby and now you’ve grown, are you still beautiful?

Your ego lives inside you but she is not you; she is your close cousin. We always react more when a family member is hurt. That’s why you react when your dear cousin Ego gets hurt. Your core self is very secure and untroubled by what people say.

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.

Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.