Stella Young Quotes

Everyone fears rejection.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

I'm very insecure.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

Many times, people who are self-involved or bullies, it stems from a place of hurt and insecurity within oneself.

As a child, I was so deeply insecure.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.

I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.

Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.