Quotes About Vulnerability

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway) I don't want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)

But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.