Quotes about mistrust

Sophocles -

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Munia Khan -

Give me a piece of cake from your love-lifeI’ll show you how to lick fidelity’s cream off every layer you mistrust.

Auliq Ice -

Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.

Auliq Ice -

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....

Auliq Ice -

A man in loss is not a man to trust.

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.

Sarah E. Olson - Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack.Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style.Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too.

Jennifer Harrison - Write like no one is reading 2

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

Angelica Hopes -

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes -

Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways." ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Jan-Philipp Sendker - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

Nick Harkaway - Angelmaker

Joshua Joseph had no great hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine. Above all he mistrusts duplication. A rare thing becomes a commonplace thing. A skill becomes a feature. The end is more important than the means. The child of the soul gives place to a product of the system.

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

Emily Thorne -

Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.

Anthony T. Hincks -

An excerpt from:“Hypothetically Speaking”ByAnthony T. Hincks(A book about you and the world – coming soon!)If I was a savvy person, I would watch, and study mankind in order to find out where his weaknesses lay.Greed, for sure; vanity; mistrust; a tendency towards violence; fanaticism, and many other less than honorable traits and even some honorable ones which could also be used, and capitalized on.Then, once I had found his weaknesses I would act.I and some friends or family, not terms that I

Craig Ferguson -

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

Wally Lamb - The Hour I First Believed

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

Thurgood Marshall -

We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and i

Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles.

Auliq Ice -

Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.

Auliq Ice -

Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I have long seen my spirituality as personal, to the degree that I harbor a slight mistrust for anyone who practices similarly. It is as though they are admitting to have on the same cut and color of underwear I do. It may be true, but I don't like to share these details with strangers.

Lynn Austin - Hidden Places

Love is like candy floss. you crave it and it looks very promising, but if you try to satisfy your hunger with it, there is nothing. Only a sweet aftertaste - if you're lucky.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Anna Jae -

Trust isn’t something you can just one day decide to have. Trust cannot be fabricated out of thin air, no matter how one’s will is set to it. Trust has to be earned. And there’s the tragedy of it, the dependence on the other, who is often not up for the challenge, poisoned as he is by the modern individualistic and time-is-money mindset. And thus trust is losing ground more and more until one day it will turn into something rare and obscure and this world has become a severly violent and lonely

Angelica Hopes -

I sail through life with great trust in my heart. Whoever stains and breaks that trust will be in a cold water best left behind. I felt the cold breeze of monetary means through the low ethics of money driven minds.I securely docked in a shore I call home without the cloaks of dead winter I saw on people who have used me.

Suzette Boon - Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Changes in Relationship with others:It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed as a child. Mistrust makes it very difficult to make friends, and to be able to distinguish between good and bad intentions in other people. Some parts do not seem to trust anyone, while other parts may be so vulnerable and needy that they do not pay attention to clues that perhaps a person is not trustworthy. Some parts like to be close to others or feel a de

Suzette Boon - Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people who receive this diagnosis often also suffer from other problems as well, and as noted earlier, diagnostic categories may overlap significantly. The symptom clusters are as follows:Alterations in Regulation of Affect ( Emotion ) and ImpulsesChanges in Relationship with othersSomatic SymptomsChanges in MeaningChanges in the perception of SelfChanges in Attent

Ellen J. Barrier -

Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

Paul Bowles - The Spider's House

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on the finishing touches at the end of a process which had begun five hundred years ago, at least. Their intuitive moral desires coincided with the ideals embodied in the formulas of their religion, yet they could live in accordance neither with those deepest impulses nor with the precepts of the religion, because society came in between with all the pressure of its tradition. No on

Jennifer Harrison - Write like no one is reading 2

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.