Sarah Dessen Quotes

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I am very suspicious of people.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I have a big cynical side to me.

It is important not to trust people too much.

I don't like people because I don't trust them.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker.

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.

I trust no one, not even myself.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

I lack trust in others.

I trust no one totally.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.