Quotes about Insecurity

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do--they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.