Charles Sturt Quotes

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

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

I don't trust anybody.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia.

The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

I don't really trust nobody.

Growing up, there were not many people I trusted. There are stories for days about how my attitude was. A lot of it's true. A lot of it's not true.

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there is no enemy; he never terrifies his countrymen till he is terrified himself. The patriotism, therefore, may be justly doubted of him, who professes to be disturbed by incredibilities.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

Let's meet as little as we can

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.