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Quotes About Vulnerability

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
~ Kurt Cobain
A tiny fly can choke a big man.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
~ Bear Grylls
A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.
~ Fred Dibnah
At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
~ Busta Rhymes
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
~ Naomi Watts
Macho doesn't prove mucho.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
~ J. B. Priestley
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
~ Joseph Addison
I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
~ Justin Townes Earle
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
~ William Faulkner
The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.
~ Diane Ackerman
I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.
~ Graham Coxon
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.
~ Irving Chernev
I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?
~ Kevin Garnett
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
~ Larry David
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
~ Steve Harvey
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
~ Albert Camus
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
~ Ben Kingsley
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
~ Dorothy Parker