Joss Whedon Quotes

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

Sometimes I get so tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realise that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I always have issues with trust.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

I'm a little confused by love.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?