Quotes About Vulnerability

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Are you strong enough to be my man?

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.