Quotes About Vulnerability

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

To show his nervousness was not shameful

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

Caring is weakness, and weakness is death.

One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Desires stay unaware of man's fragile existence authored by scarcity

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.