523 Quotes About Insecurity

No one looks in a mirror to see a mirror.

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)

My love says I am not a fool but I will play dumb for you. He tells me sweet nothings and calls only on the weekends. On Mondays I find our love in a bottle. On Tuesdays it clouds a Joint. He texts to confirm plans. Tells me to shave downstairs for next time. And I listen. Because I am young. Naïve. A little bit desperate and kind of hungry. There is this way he almost loves me. It's never enough but I always stay.

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.

But insecurity remains the hallmark of Pakistan’s political and intellectual conversation. Even a comment about, say, Pakistan’s relatively low ranking among nations for book readership, is portrayed as an attack on the idea of Pakistan.

Whenever Insecurity whispers In your ear, telling you how much you suck, tell it to shut the hell up. Then keep going forward anyway.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Labels (of any kind) are simply band-aids people apply to their lives to mask the wounds of their insecurities.

Men often used that phrase: "drop some weight." They said it without shame or emotion, as if the weight were an object they could easily put down when they chose. Women said they needed to "lose weight," with their eyes down, as if the extra weight was part of them, a terrible sin they'd committed.