Quotes About Vulnerability

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

I hope," he replies softly, "to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

Tears won't help me right now. They'll just make me weaker.

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

People visit exposed and vulnerable

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

Hope is the opiate of the frail.

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.