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Quotes About Vulnerability

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
~ Nan Goldin
Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
~ Adriana Lima
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
~ Amy Bloom
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Beauty is a frail good.
~ Ovid
Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
~ Henri Nouwen
It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
~ Wayne White
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.
~ Marie Lu, Legend
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
~ Phineas Fletcher
It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
~ Holly Black
What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.
~ Damian Kulash
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
~ George Sand
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
~ Richard Avedon
I feel most beautiful at night, when I take my makeup off and it's just me.
~ Ashley Greene
I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.
~ Brad Willis
Beauty is a perilous gift.
~ Ellis Peters
Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
~ Robert Tew
This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
~ Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
~ Robert Tew
The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
~ Charlie Chaplin
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
~ Tom Stoppard
Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
~ Sue Johnson
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?
~ George F. Kennan
There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.
~ George Burns