Quotes About Vulnerability

Yes indeed, I thought, a neat piece of theatre. I was going to enjoy putting these people away. You can sometimes forgive a man who works a line, but not the ones who prey on the grief and suffering of others. That was like stealing the cushions off a pair of crutches.

If you make yourself like sugar, the ants will eat you.

I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself...

you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Nothing touches me more than cracks in the armor and the person who reveals them.

He groans, no longer able to contain it, a sound that he releases maybe without even realizing it himself; he moves me tremendously. As I've said, nothing in life moves me more than these moments of pure abandon, of self-oblivion.

I say "courage," but it may be something else. Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that's too dark or dense or vast.

His was the first male sex I held in my hand, other than my own. My first kiss was the one he gave me. My first embrace, skin against skin, was with him.

I wonder if it's cold fathers who make the sensitive sons.

And then, he asks me to take him. He says the words, without shame, without ordering me to either. I obey him, though I'm afraid. I know that it can hurt if the other person doesn't know how to do it, that the body can resist.

T. me laisse parler. À la fin, il dit : c'est comme ça, il n'y a rien à discuter (je crois même qu'il dit : négocier). Si tu préfères, on arrête. Si tu ne supportes plus. Là, maintenant, tout de suite. Je dis : non, on n'arrête pas. La terreur de le perdre l'a emporté sur toute autre considération. La dépendance.

Je redoute la menace qui se précise, qui s'attaquerait à l'enfance.

We should always make love as though for the first time, with the nervous passion of those who have never known this moment, and the unashamed good fortune of novices.

C'est bien la peur éprouvée par d'autres, beaucoup plus que la haine ou je ne sais quel autre sentiment, qui m'avait transformé en victime.

Each betrayal begins with trust

I am aware that the woman sits on the floor with me, and my head is in her lap, but I can't see her anymore. I only feel her bones beneath my bones, holding me up. I strain to see, even though I feel the sun on my skin, coming through the window.

According to Schafran, many women, including women judges and jurors, "avoid acknowledging their own vulnerability by blaming the victim. This distancing mechanism operates particularly in non-stranger rape cases, because it is in acknowledging the likelihood of these crimes that women jurors feel most at risk.

Nih?e od nas ne uživa pri naštevanju svojih napak. V ve?ini jih raje prikrijemo. Ignoriramo njihov obstoj in se pretvarjamo pred seboj in drugimi ljudmi. Kaj so torej tisti madeži na našem zna?aju, ki jih ne želimo videti?

Vloge, ki jih igramo, in maske, za katerimi se skrivamo, uporabljamo zato, da se nam ne bi bilo treba ukvarjati s seboj in s svojimi pomanjkljivostmi.

Faults shared are as comfortable as bedroom slippers and as easy to slip into.