Quotes About Vulnerability

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Even a scientist is a human being. So it is natural for him, like others, to hate the things he cannot explain. It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

For we are all in some way or other kept asunder by our secrets; and instead of seeking through confession to bridge the abysses that separate us from one another, we choose the easy by-way of deceptive opinions and illusions.

As a doctor I constantly have to ask myself what kind of message the patient is bringing me. What does he mean to me? If he means nothing, I have no point of attack. The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. 'Only the wounded physician heals.' But when the doctor wears his personality like a coat of armor, he has no effect.

in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.

the lined face are pitiless reminders that whether or not we expose ourselves to the destructive forces of life, the poison of the stealthily creeping serpent of time consumes our bodies nonetheless.

Nothing is more vulnerable and ephemeral than scientific theories, which are mere tools and not everlasting truths.

Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

I stepped into the shadows of the earth, and saw that I am naked and have nothing to cover my poverty. No sooner do you touch the earth than your inner life is over; it flees from you into things.

What a terrifying thing it is to be yourself

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Hypothermia was curling back its lips and exposing its sharp teeth.

But she was still conscious. She had no concept of time or motion, but she could hear the sound of his boots scraping gravel outside the car. And she could feel the sharp prick of a needle through the fabric of her jeans into her inner thigh.

Then to her: "Don't get me wrong. I admire your guts coming here tonight. That shows me something. But I've got a question for you." "What?" "Who is going to protect these people now?" he asked. "You?" He said it with incredulity. She felt her face flush hot again, and she sipped the glass of wine for something to do.

He seemed almost too exuberant, she thought. As if he was happy but with a bit of desperation thrown in.

Whatever was in the syringe was taking hold of her again, pulling her down, and she felt herself swoon. There was some comfort when she closed her eyes again, and she knew she wouldn't last very long before she passed out again.

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Now that they got you little girls they won't have no use for me," she said, and a single tear snaked down her cheek.

there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

Maybe shy is when you're lonely and you don't think anybody can help you.

Mis sentidos se acostumbraron a ese bosque de traiciones y engaños, poblado por depredadores bien alimentados que la rodeaban como una manada de lobos a su presa.