Quotes About Vulnerability

The true test of a relationship, Gert thought, is if you can tell someone the most boring story in the world about yourself, and they'll still have something to add.

died during a hard freeze, was

Radiance unrelenting— no peace, no shadow, no shelter now—

We're obsessed with filling in the blank for a Mad Libs line that goes: _____ makes us human. Why? Scratch and sniff the what makes us human obsession and you get a strong whiff of something that could fit into that blank: our insecurity.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

What if, despite all our pretense and disguise, it was necessary to appear in public with the person we loved most of all? Imagine this a prerequisite for social discourse on Earth.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness

And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.

We are difficult to come by and a danger to ourselves.

His voice was right. She instantly remembered it. And his smell, his gait, his laugh. The way his beard abraded her cheek. All of it combined to shatter her self-possession. She could feel a massive stone seal being pried open and the first rays of light entering an ancient, almost forgotten tomb.

A little deeper was a fear of falling in love without reservation, of committing herself to someone who might then be snatched from her. Or simply leave her. But if you never really fall in love, you can never really miss it.

A beautiful trust. A rare and beautiful trust. It makes me cry a little. That's all that life has to give in the way of perfection. The warm and complete understanding of two in a close-walled room with the windows blind to the world.

I have met a great many people, nearly all friendly, many of whom I was fairly intimate with in one way of another, but nobody has seemed as close to me in spirit as you are. That was why I thought only of you at those times when my life seemed in danger of falling to pieces.

I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.

I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I never was hard or sell-sufficient enough. When people are soft--soft people have got to shimmer and glow--they've got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a-- paper lantern over the light.... It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.

Laura: I've never danced in my life! Jim: Come on, try! Laura: Oh, but I'd step on you! Jim: I'm not made out of glass.

Esto no es una tragedia. El cristal se rompe tan fácilmente... Por cuidadoso que uno sea. El tránsito hace trepitar los estantes y las cosas se caen

Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

In some ways I'm no better than the others, in some ways I'm worse because I'm less alive. Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful - I don't know but - anyway - we've been friends... - And being friends is telling each other the truth...