Quotes About Vulnerability

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.