Top 97 Confide Quotes
#1. We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.
Gretchen Rubin
#2. For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
Rudyard Kipling
#3. We confide in each other and we really spend time together like a family. And since I'm the maknae, my unnies take care of me even more. I don't think we will be broken apart very easily.
Seohyun
#4. There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.
John Adams
#5. I want to talk. I actually want to tell someone what I feel. I want to tell her, but I can't. I don't do that. I don't confide. I don't vent. I don't share. I don't trust anyone, ever.
Sarah Ann Walker
#6. The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
William Gilmore Simms
#7. But one may like someone enough to kiss them without liking them enough to confide in them. The two are quite different emotions.
Zen Cho
#8. Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.
Peter Barham
#9. I was alone, so alone. No one to confide in, no one to talk to.
Nujood Ali
#10. It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.
Georges Bernanos
#11. Being alone is a terrible, terrible thing. There's no one to run to, no one to confide in, no one who cares what happens to you.
Richelle Mead
#12. There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#13. The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
#14. A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate than confide.
Richard B. Woodward
#15. Telepathically, I tell her I'm sorry. I tell her I just can't confide in her right now, tell her the three feet between us feels like three light-years to me and I don't know how to bridge it.
Telepathically, she tells me back that I'm breaking her broken heart.
Jandy Nelson
#16. The complete truth, McKenzie, is I'd do anything for you, but you ask for nothing. You won't confide in me. You won't rely on me. You're so preoccupied trying to decide if you can trust your feelings that you won't consider giving in to them.
Sandy Williams
#17. A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall
#18. I think you need someone in your life you can depend on, someone you can confide in when things go to hell at work, someone to massage your tired feet and your stiff shoulders, someone to bring you tea and cook a meal once
in a while. Someone to be there for you.
Pamela Clare
#19. We should confide in each other. We shouldn't keep things fro each other. I mean, we've known each other for over twenty years,for God's sake.
Sophie Kinsella
#20. Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emil Cioran
#21. I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthus
#22. I have friends, but my brother is really the one person who I can confide in and talk to about anything.
Brooke Hogan
#23. What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?
Albert Camus
#24. I have been asked the question, Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?' My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.
Billy Graham
#25. Her initial need to confide in someone arose from the first disappointments of her sensuality, emerging as naturally as the first satisfactions of love normally emerge. She had not as yet known love. A short time later she suffered from it, which is the only manner in which we get to know it.
Marcel Proust
#26. I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who confide in him with faith and love; they look on him as the Emmanuel, God with us, who wished to dwell amongst us: his heart in our heart
Pope John Paul II
#27. To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
John Lancaster Spalding
#28. Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.
Dallin H. Oaks
#29. First thought? I'd kissed you without knowing for sure that you were gay and it could have blown up in my face. Then, when it didn't, I thought about kissing you again. After that I just wanted to be the person you could confide in and trust with the all the pain I saw in you.
Jessie G.
#30. When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.
Confucius
#31. I hope never to have to do that to you again. I hope one day you will forgive me. Try to remember, just at this moment, that my trade calls for acting. Try to remember, Richard, as I have told you, that because of your own honesty I can't confide in you.
Dorothy Dunnett
#32. My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls confide in me and know how much I love them.
Louisa May Alcott
#33. I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse.
Caitlin Moran
#34. What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.
-Jeremy Malory-
Johanna Lindsey
#35. A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
Burt Lancaster
#36. I would ask him to forgive me, for being his mother and never knowing what was going on inside his head, for not being able to help him, for not being the person that he could confide in." When
Sue Klebold
#37. Every secret we confide in another
person can be a burden to them
Henning Mankell
#38. A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.
Ashley Young
#39. What books can you read to learn about this part of your life? What people do you need to confide in to grow deeper? What things do you need to stop doing in order to grow? What things do you need to start doing?
Josh Hatcher
#40. There are things in life which one can confide
in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because
of this that I write to my mother without the knowl-
edge of the others, for whom my secrets are quite
uninteresting, or, rather, . unnecessary.
Anton Chekhov
#41. People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.
Marilyn Manson
#42. Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
Candace B. Pert
#43. A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#44. We must know how to confide. There is the fear of God and the fear of a Judas. Too much fear makes one labour without love, and too much confidence prevents from considering the danger which we must overcome.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#45. Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still I sometimes think it's horrible that you find you can never really confide in people, even in those who are nearest to you.
Anne Frank
#46. She walked to work every day feeling starkly, conspicuously alone. It seemed that everyone else on the street had someone to keep them company, someone to laugh with and confide in and nudge in the ribs. All those packs of young girls who'd already figured everything out.
Anne Tyler
#47. It was never a good idea to confide in people. They always remembered, and when they came up to you in the street, years later, you could see the information was still firmly attached to your face and present in the way they said your name and the pressure of their hand clasping yours.
Helen Simonson
#49. I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!
Anais Nin
#50. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear?
David Levithan
#51. Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets.
Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.
Craig Stone
#52. When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.
Steven Pressfield
#53. What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Dana Gioia
#54. You need to be able to confide in people.
Katie Price
#55. What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.
Oswald Chambers
#56. My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
Georgette Heyer
#57. Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark
#58. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#59. If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
George Muller
#60. The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.
Keri Hulme
#61. Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#62. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.
Camelia C.
#63. Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything. She takes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time thinking about her loony sister, looking at me closely whenever I open my mouth and wondering, Is she acting, or does she really mean it?
Anne Frank
#64. It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each
person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn't too great.
Veronica Roth
#65. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#67. Men confide, lust rhetorically, copulate hypothetically with women of unacknowledged fantasy.
Aleksandar Hemon
#68. To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.
Victor Hugo
#69. Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later.
Colishia S. Benjamin
#70. With no one to confide in, she'd held the argument inside her own head and naturally found a way to dissolve facts into concepts and concepts into explanations that in the end explained nothing at all.
Vincent H. O'Neil
#71. O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
Walt Whitman
#72. I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it - to possibly care - inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.
Rachel Cohn
#73. I hope somebody cares because I sure don't. I sure don't. Not anymore. I'm ashamed to go around my family. I'm too embarrassed to confide in my friends. Outside of work I don't have a life.
Mary B. Morrison
#74. Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me
Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?
Tupac Shakur
#75. Of course parents want their children to confide in them.
Dirk Nowitzki
#76. Confide not in the firmness of your principles, or the steadfastness of your integrity. Be always vigilant and fearful. Never think you have enough of knowledge, and let not your caution slumber for a moment, for you know not when danger is near.
Charles Brockden Brown
#77. Be careful who you share your personal life with. If someone you confide shares secrets with you, that they were asked not to divulge, chances are your secret's already out there too. Everything is not for everybody.
Carlos Wallace
#78. We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
William Gurnall
#79. Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?
Richard Paul Evans
#80. Something in his manner makes me want to confide things to him I've never told anyone. Even painful things, shameful things. I didn't know how badly I wanted to share them.
Christina Baker Kline
#81. All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life's worries to them.
Philippe Forest
#82. I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
Anne Frank
#83. No Amish woman would dare to confide, even in her sister, that a man's very presence made her heart quicken and her senses tingle.
Sarah Price
#84. Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her - the opportunity, the courage.
Gustave Flaubert
#85. Better confide and be deceiv'd,
A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose.
Frances Sargent Osgood
#86. It is all I can do not to confide to the girl closest to me: "If I should die during tea - asphyxiated by my own corset - please do not let them bury me in such a hideous dress or I shall come back to haunt you.
Libba Bray
#87. Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.
J.K. Rowling
#88. I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision.
Tracie Peterson
#89. I'm hers. To confide in. To vent to. To celebrate with. To grow with. To show her strengths. To bear her vulnerabilities. To laugh with. To cry with. To love. And to be loved by. I'm hers.
Kim Holden
#90. If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
to help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
than 2 stop and c what makes u cry
Tupac Shakur
#91. Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.
Ben Greenhalgh
#92. My four golden principles are more important now than ever: take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.
Robert Harris
#93. By nature he is more closed-up than I am, I agree, but I know - and from my own experience - that at some time or other even the most uncommunicative people long just as much, if not more, to find someone whom they can confide in.
Anne Frank
#95. We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
#96. You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
Thomas Hardy
#97. He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
Dejan Stojanovic
