“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“"I am trying to trust," said one to me this past week, who had heard the earth falling on the casket which held the cold form of the dearest human friend, " I am trying to trust," and so I have seen a bird with a broken wing trying to fly. When the heart is broken, all our trying will only increase our pain and unrest. But if, instead of trying to trust, we will press closer to the Comforter, and lean our weary heads upon His sufficient grace, the trust will come without our trying, and the promised "perfect peace" will calm every troubled wave of sorrow.”

Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister

“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”

Jane Austen book Emma

“My trust in you is broken and I am plunged into despair for the animals.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful … The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.”

Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier

“I trust that I am honest with myself. I know that I am not very sociable and I expect to go on being so; a man capable of creative work has no time to spare for fools who would like to visit.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Number of the Beast