Quotes About Vulnerability

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

There are no real men.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.