“Some people build fences to keep people out...and other people build fences to keep people in.”— August Wilson, amazon.com
“Some people aren’t loyal to you, they are loyal to their need of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.”— Unknown, bookofallquotes.com
“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they c…”— Ryan O'Connell, goodreads.com
“It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.”— Kenneth Branagh, m.imdb.com
“Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.”— Unknown, philosiblog.com
“I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“It's hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.”— Nick Burd, amazon.com
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Not for the first time, I sensed that those who know love and those who enjoy life are not the same people.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.”— Iyanla Vanzant, amazon.com
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“They did to others that which they would not they should do to them—that grand principle of immorality upon which rests the whole art of war.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com