Insecurity Quotes
605 quotes by 496 authors
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One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.
— Pittacus Lore
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Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493
— Kate Morton
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I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite.…
— Miley Cyrus
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The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.
— Thomas Ligotti
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Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women…
— Candace Bushnell
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Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you…
— Jason Mraz
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I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial --…
— Octavia Butler
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when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light…
— Michael Ondaatje
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… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of…
— Amos Oz
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And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?
— Lisi Harrison
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I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers…
— Richelle Mead
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Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
— Graham Greene
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From the moment I laid eyes on you I couldn't stop looking at you. From the moment we talked I couldn't stop arguing with you.…
— Simone Elkeles
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The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.
— Brandon Sanderson
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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to…
— Alan Watts
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These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt,…
— Martin Amis
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I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Insecurity Quotes
496 authors contributed a total of 605 Insecurity Quotes, led by these top contributors: