Quotes About Vulnerability

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.