Rihanna Quotes

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Beverly Hills didn't save me from anything. It exposed me to a whole new world of problems I didn't know existed.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

They sell you this present of rainbows and butterflies, and as a 16-year-old, that's what I bought. It's why I did 'X Factor' and why I ended up in a group. But then you're working so hard, so young.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.

Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.