Quote #182252
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy Connolly
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Interpretation
Connolly contrasts “securities” with “insecurities” to describe a shift from self-doubt toward self-trust. The line suggests a mature confidence built not on the absence of fear, but on having accumulated enough inner resources—experience, resilience, perspective—that anxiety no longer dominates. His mention of being less afraid of “myself and my imagination” points to a common source of distress: the mind’s capacity to invent worst-case scenarios or self-sabotaging narratives. Read this way, the quote frames personal growth as learning to live with one’s own mental intensity, turning imagination from a threat into a tool, and allowing creative or comic instincts to operate without constant self-policing.




