Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I'm definitely scared by commitment.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who's not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I'm kissing somebody in a scene.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

I have trust issues.

I've had some great relationships that I have absolutely sabotaged because I'm afraid to get close to someone, and I know, eventually, I'll run off.

I don't really like being vulnerable.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.