Quotes About Trust

Alienation, a lack of trust either in happiness or in others.

It is perhaps worth remembering that we are all, as a species, prey to dreams and nightmares. Our art is built upon the irrepressible stream of images rising from a secret fulcrum that can never be trusted. And though these images can delight and amaze, they can also paralyze and terrify. There are times when we are shamed by the most fleeting savage fancy.

I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

He took my head in both his hands. There was no dreadful pressure; there was no pain. It was gentle, the manner in which he was holding me.

I see that you are capable of secrecy but quite incapable of a lie.

You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming to sack its riches.

It was a lie to give him over to the daylight, to companionship other than my own.

How could anyone ever trust Cary Grant, I wondered—a man who looked as though he were made entirely of wood?

He wanted the truth and knew he could not get it by hostile means.

Did everyone know he was the boy I kept? My minion, my lover, my secret treasure?

Was he for the world or for me?

You do not want secrets which can be ripped from your heart.

I had given myself over to the religion, insofar as I could, be abandoned to anything.

Were I not so busy with the matters of the Mayfair Witches," he wrote, "perhaps this disappearance would never have occurred. I might have been more attentive to D. during his time of transition. I might have held him more firmly in my affections and thereby earned more surely his complete trust. As it is, I can only surmise what has become of him, and I fear he has met with spirtual catastrophe quite against his will.

had taken out the iron key to the lock and I studied him, wondering what promises one exacts from such a monster before opening one's door. Did the ancient laws of hospitality mean anything to the creatures of the night?

Undoubtedly he will contact me. I know him too well to think otherwise. He will come to me. He will-whatever his state of mind, and I cannot possibly imagine it-come to me to give me some solace, if nothing else.

We injure those we love.

Here they could see the trusting dancers, who seemed one and all to be dancing alone rather than with anyone else, each moving to the music in a primitive way as though drunk on it.

What a simple trusting being she was, with her eyes and mouth happily painted, and cheeks rouged, her breasts thrust forward and held in place by tight straps beneath her black silk dress.

He looked as though he contained heavy secrets which he must tell and yet he feared to do it.

I pray that my stories will keep you from destroying me.

I could betray her utterly were she to allow. Or I might only take from her some mercy, and leave her finally with a mystery which she would never understand.

I'm not the Christ, my child," I said, speaking to that part of him deep within the mind of which he knew nothing. "But one who comes with his own salvation. Amadeo, come into my arms.

Give men enough time and they will turn on anyone.