Quotes About Vulnerability

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Acting is very sacred. Anyone who stands in front of a crew with the camera recording their emotions is a brave individual.

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

I've actually never done standup before.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.