Quotes About Vulnerability

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

......And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.