Quotes About Vulnerability

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

When one writes, there's the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.