William Wordsworth Quotes

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?

I hide my emotions mainly because you don't want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel worse, or because you don't want someone to know or see your fear. If someone like a sick kid or a burn victim sees your fear, they respond to how you respond. And if you show them it's terrible, they will get upset. It's something I've learned over the years.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn’t worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was.