Quotes about Insecurity

She had so much more capacity for love than I had - I couldn't bring down that curtain round the moment, I couldn't forget and I couldn't not fear. Even in the moment of love, I was like a police officer gathering evidence of a crime that hadn't yet been committed [...]

Because I couldn't bear the thought of her so much as touching another man, I feared it all the time, and I saw intimacy in the most casual movement of her hand.

Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people…afraid of saying something stupid…afraid of being laughed at.

Fear is the original sin, wrote John Foster. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.

Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.

Jane did not like Phyllis. Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.

Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves