Quotes About Vulnerability

Why does our host always have tears in his eyes after sex? Due to the pepper spray.

Like lambs to the slaughter.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

When I am weak, then am I strong.

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.