Quotes About Vulnerability

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

It takes a strong heart to love. And it takes a truly strong heart to love again after being hurt.

You can't make homes out of human beings…if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.

f the lion in us wishes to roar but the goat bleats instead, we must pay for this substitution in one way or another. Payment will vary: For some, it will be experienced as depression, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, or a growing unconsciousness. For others, it can be uncontrollable, seemingly irrational behavior, during which life, fortune, profession, or marriage may be risked. In its most extreme form, the price may be a physical breakdown that can lead to illness or even death.

If the lion in us wishes to roar but the goat bleats instead, we must pay for this substitution in one way or another. Payment will vary: For some, it will be experienced as depression, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, or a growing unconsciousness. For others, it can be uncontrollable, seemingly irrational behavior, during which life, fortune, profession, or marriage may be risked. In its most extreme form, the price may be a physical breakdown that can lead to illness or even death.

The key here is that each of us must learn to feel our own vulnerability so that we can feel the vulnerability of our partners. This deepens connections. Embracing our vulnerability is a very threatening thing to do in relationship because it means meeting the other person without defenses.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

Gott weiß, wie schwer es mir fällt Beziehungen zu genießen. Ich verhalte mich immer wie ein Geheimdienstler, der seinen Partner als Doppelagent enttarnen will.

En stund gråter hun. Jeg vil tro at det er fordi hun er gravid. En gang sa Munita at gravide kvinner lett tar til tårene. Det har visstnok noe å gjøre med at det dannes så mye fostervann i livmoren at det flommer over iblant.

I hope you'll stay. I hope you'll stay. But I would leave me too, if I could.

I keep a pistol when I sleep -inside my mouth so I don't fight my tongue -for saying all these things, like how I saw you in my dreams.

The year is 2018 and I've realized that nobody is safe as long as she is alive and every friend that I know has a story like mine.

I won't take anyone down If I crawl tonight But I still let everyone down When I change in size And I went tumbling down Trying to reach your height But I scream too loud If I speak my mind.

the weak shall not fight only the strong are the chosen ones.

To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land so that the strong shall not harm the weak.

We sit huddled together for a few minutes, just being there with one another, and it feels dangerous to me that nobody is saying anything.

She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people's rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?