Quotes About Vulnerability

He knew the vulnerability of his strength.

He wanted to take her in his arms, he wanted to be utterly revealed to her, he wanted her to understand.

He felt indestructible because destroyed.

Verá usted, todo empezó con unas cartas. —¿Cartas? —Si, los seres humanos deberían tener muchísimo más cuidado con las cartas. Son unas armas muy poderosas. Sin embargo, la gente las escribe en momentos de emoción y quienes las reciben no las destruyen.

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

Moy felt something snap inside her as if her heart had snapped. The heart-string, she thought — what is the heart-string?

They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can appreciate what ah feel, what ah need. Protect me from those who wish tae help us.

Algunos pobres cabrones simplemente están mucho más predispuestos hacia la adicción a ciertas drogas que otros.

Pero tener buen corazón solo sirve para que algunos quieran clavarte un cuchillo en él. Lo consideran un objetivo, como si fuera la diana de los dardos. Dicen: "Vamos a por ese buen corazón.

Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincro, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.

They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can appreciate what ah feel, what ah need. Protect me from those who wish tae help us.

It felt strange telling the truth, he'd got so comfortable with deception. It made him feel real, and consequently vulnerable. tended to look at ma behaviour and ways of modifying it, rather than determining its causes.

evil was vulnerable, even though it wore armor weighing a thousand pounds. There would always be some spot in it which was u defended; and if the good in man were dominant it would find that exposed area and evolve a way to penetrate it. The emotion must convey the idea that his conflict with Goliath was a parable of good and evil.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.

Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man

It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me.

Being helpless is one of the things that isn't altogether amusing. - Gilbert

Even as though dearest with th en humble and defenseless, thus shalt though be dealt with.

Ahora bien, cualquier dogma, basado primariamente en la fe y el sentimentalismo, es un arma peligrosa usada sobre los demás, puesto que es imposible garantizar que el arma nunca se vuelva contra el que la emplea.

Trantor becomes more specialized, it becomes more vulnerable, less able to defend itself. Further, as it becomes more and more the administrative centre of Empire, it becomes a greater prize. As the Imperial succession becomes more and more uncertain, and the feuds among the great families more rampant, social responsibility disappears.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.' 

In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.