Quotes About Vulnerability

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

The married man has all but eliminated that worry from his life, simply because his wife knows all about him: the good, the bad, and the tiny.

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.

No man may be completely invulnerable.