Miranda July Quotes

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.

I don't trust nobody, and I mean that.

I don't like people because I don't trust them.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.

I trust no one, not even myself.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

I feel like everybody's always out to get me, and that's a weird feeling.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.