Quotes About Vulnerability

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"

Oh! would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now And have a good cry!

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Only the young die good.

Feet have no roots; everyone can fall.

Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete — but try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that flowers can still grow through.

For in the nocturnal realm of sleep are to be found both the light and the darkness of humanity, its honey and its poison, its greatness and its vulnerability.

Ima takvih ljudi koji se ne?ega plaše ili stide, nešto žele da sakriju. I upravo zbog toga oni svojim pogledom stalno nastoje da privuku i zadrže tu?i pogled, u želji da ga vežu za svoje o?i i da mu tako ne dopuste da ide dalje i da razgleda i ispituje crte njihova lica ili delove tela ili ode?u na njima.

Imaju tri stvari koje se ne daju sakriti, a to su: ljubav, kašalj i siromaštvo.

Od straha su ljudi zli i surovi i podli, od straha su darežljivi, ?ak i dobri. Sve se niži višega boji. A onaj koji nema nikog da se boji taj preza pred strahom kog mu ra?a njegova bolesna mašta, jer strah je kao zaraza koja ispunjava sve mozgove. Kad bih mogao zaviriti u nutrinu ovom ?ovjeku kom je odre?eno da me mu?i, mislim da bih našao malu, bijednu dušu, izmu?enu obzirima i strahom pred propustima i ukorima. Žao mi ga je i ta me samilost boli.