Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

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

We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia.

Trust not one night's ice.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

I trust no one, not even myself.

I always have issues with trust.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

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

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

He that's secure is not safe.

I trust no one totally.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.