#insecurity

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#chaos #civilization #destruction #fear #insecurity

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#books #depression #insecurity #isolation #language

Unfortunately, I am only myself. ↗

— Lisa Burstein

#insecurity #first-sentence

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure. ↗

— Danielle Dax

#buzz #destroy #feel #find #get

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. ↗

— Tony Blair

#contagion #crave #economies #ever #fall

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#america #arts #attribute #brave #brave new world

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#different #different times #i #i do #insecurity

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck. ↗

— Drew Carey

#i #insecurity #living #miss #paycheck

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#amount #around #attached #being #being a man

Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity. ↗

— Debra Winger

#behaviour #comes #insecurity #most