Emotional Guard Quotes

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.

But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

I've had relationships with people from all over the world, but there has never been enough time in a day for me to have anything other than just close relationships. I've never been one to give myself over to anybody. I don't know what is wrong with me, but it never happened.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Just because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve - " "You don't even wear your heart in your chest.

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

I'm not super open to new people. I have a small group of people I trust. I'm very intuitive, so I'm good at feeling out how people are, like if they have bad intentions. Sometimes I'm very closed off, which annoys me, but I think it's for the best.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Sometimes I definitely shut people out. I can be that sort of girlfriend who crosses her arms, shakes her head and says, "Nope, I'm not telling you what's wrong. I'm fine."

I'm the kind of person who doesn't let anyone in easily.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.