Quotes About Vulnerability

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

I want someone who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

She can break your fall Or let you fall and break And every time you jump You just know she's going to catch you

I want to be in love with a woman One who loved me One who could show me I could trust her One who could show me That I didn't have to be on my guard all the time

Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses A burst of raw animal definition For a few moments I was mortal

Don't touch me I'll feel too good I'll fall apart The only thing holding me together is my pain

You hide your fear and call it something else You're addicted to all the things that make you weak

So easy to not say what you think To not do what you want Hard to take rejection Easy to hurt someone else and not know it Easy to make it hard

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.