Quotes About Vulnerability

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

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

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

The most difficult part of dating is the initial invitation.

I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.

By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.