Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

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

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

There is not a single human being that I trust!

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

I have trust issues.

A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you.

The thing about Lucifer is that by the end of the first season, his world is falling apart a bit. Anyone that he could call an ally or trust, he now can't, and that leaves him in a place that he's never been before.

It's hard to trust people when your own friends seem to think poorly of you.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

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

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

I always have issues with trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

I'm not a big fan of having my loyalty called into question.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

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.

My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldn't be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.