Quotes About Vulnerability

The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold!

The human heart is a wild and bruised beast and often acts accordingly.

He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

La virilité est un fardeau qui renvoie constamment l' homme ordinaire à une vulnérabilité inavouable.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become.

Riley : Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on. Mercy: Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.

Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love. Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't try to tell him that he wasn't God, that he couldn't protect everyone. He knew that. But knowing and believing were two different things. What she did say succeeded in stopping his heart. I wish you'd love me. Why? Because then maybe you could protect me, too. Haunting sorrow whispered through her tone.

You don't fear me, he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.

Sex is only one aspect of sexual dependency. Pleasure becomes the motivation, but the real satisfaction is romantic. Bed becomes a forum in which struggles in a relationship are defused or intensified. Sex isn't about performance; it's about a certain kind of communication founded on trust and exposure and vulnerability that can't be expressed any other way.

It isn't always easy to trust people you love - not because you don't love them enough, but because you don't want them to be wrong and get hurt. But getting hurt is a part of life, and so, thank God, is trust.

To speak was to open a door into his carefully built fortress, and anything might rush inside.

Matt worried about what would happen to him now. Would Rosa come back and throw him into the sawdust? Would she make good on her promise to bury him alive?

Matt was strapped to a bed in a room full of alarming machinery.

At one point Willum and two strange doctors appeared and proceeded to poke Matt's stomach and take his blood. They untied him so he could pee into a bottle

It was better to take a chance on the devil she didn't know than to leave herself completely unprotected against the man who (despite his recent assurances of devotion) had made it his business to torment her in the past.

No woman really minds hearing of the past affairs of her lover, it is the future alone that has the power to terrify

Ultimately, who we are can't be hidden. But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.

She lay all too aware of how frost stiffened her hair, furred her blankets.

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

What we cannot expect is that the people least responsible for this crisis will foot all, or even most, of the bill. Because that is a recipe for catastrophic amounts of carbon ending up in our common atmosphere. Like the call to honor our treaties and other land-sharing agreements with Indigenous peoples, climate change is once again forcing us to look at how injustices that many assumed were safely buried in the past are shaping our shared vulnerability to global climate collapse.