Quotes About Vulnerability

Giovanni', I said, helplessly, 'be careful. Please be careful'. He gave me an ironical smile. 'Thank you', he said, 'You should have given me that advice the night we met

Fear and love cannot long remain in the same bed together. And how many nights I lay there, while Barbara slept, filled with an indescribable bewilderment; feeling that all that held me to life was being gnawed away, and feeling myself sink, like a weighted corpse, deeper and deeper in the sea of uncertainty.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward, but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

You going to need me, baby, one of these cold, rainy days.

In a dangerous, turbulent world full of threats and disruptions, you need to "protect your flanks"—identify and protect against vulnerabilities that, if exposed or exploited, could kill or cripple you.

There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.

As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: "You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes."3

It's a man's God-given right to die first. We're useless without them.

did. But he was glad her head was deep in his shoulder greatcoat. Again he craned around and caught sight of it, slightly aft and lying flat in the water, now seeming to

It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed, powerless, and not prepared to allow your friends and family or whomever to perish first.

No man knows courage," his father had told him, "who has not known fear.

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love.   —Polish Proverb

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love. —Polish Proverb

We are all on a journey to an unknown place, all subject to forces and opinions that threaten to destroy us. At the same time, we are surrounded by miracles that protect us whenever we feel ourselves to be most vulnerable. A footprint in stone here, a golden sandal there, a solitary cloud somewhere else. Are we not looking for such signs that tell us that we are protected by an invisible hand? Certainly I was beginning to believe this to be so.

Never go to bed with a woman who has more troubles than you do. —Lew Archer

To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong.

I had to talk to people. All people scared me.

His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended, scalding tears rolled out of a fountain that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks that had oftener felt the storms of heaven, than any testimonials of weakness.

She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

I think men who can cry are strong men

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

We fell in love. We pursued that love sexually and emotionally. I don't think he's as comfortable or as open with his sexuality as I am with mine, so he ended the relationship. It was a beautiful thing, like the most perfect healthy colorful blooming flower, while it lasted, it was like a flower from heaven. Now it's like a bomb went off in my heart. I'll probably never be the same.