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Quotes About Vulnerability

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
~ Tori Amos
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.
~ Torill Kove
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
~ Victoria Abril
I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?
~ Viola Davis
An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.
~ W. H. Auden
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
~ Wally Lamb
Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
~ Walter Mosley
Talking of love is making it.
~ William Gurney Benham
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
~ William Hazlitt
It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
~ Yoko Ono
Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.
~ Yoko Ono
But then she hadn't just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
~ Ann Brashares
You just have to let people love you in the way they can
~ Ann Brashares
She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
~ Ann Brashares
That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.
~ Anna Godbersen
Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.
~ Anne Lamott
Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
~ Anne Rice
We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.
~ Anne Rice
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.
~ Babs Deal
One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
~ Bertrand Russell
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
~ Bette Midler
'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
~ Billy Joel