Janet Jackson Quotes

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

I don't want to show my emotions in public.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Coming into 'The Bachelorette,' I always led with a calculated mind and not an open heart.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

Sometimes, yeah, I wish I would have protected my heart a little more, absolutely.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

I don't cry unless it's personal.

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.