Bill Russell Quotes

I find it really hard to be close to anybody.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

It's hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it's - I don't really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls.

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.