Quote by Stephen R. Donaldson

“…and believed him despite my better judgment. I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did.”

— C.D. Reiss

“He had no trust in his own judgement any more, but there was no one else to rely on.”

— Catherine O'Flynn

“Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of…

— Shimon Peres

“I believed I would never trust another person for as long as I lived. Yet, I couldn't help but trust him; the decision was…

— Rachel Higginson

“Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad,…

— Anthony Liccione

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“The implied trust was humbling. He didn't deserve it, but then again, he wouldn't betray it either.”

— Emma Wildes

“Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into…

— Dani Shapiro

“If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group of men…

— Amitav Ghosh

“She hoped he was right, but she couldn't help distrusting his faith in humanity, he had never been on the receiving end of its…

— Kaede Lazares

“It is not you in particular that I distrust, but the whole of humanity.”

— Natsume Sōseki

“People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her,…

— Marcel Proust