Quotes About Vulnerability

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don't! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.

whenever you hold a gun, it's really the gun that's holding you.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system. Heart condition, diabetes, slow-killing diseases with slow-sounding names. This is the body going over to death with impatience, one part at a time.

One night. It took one night to lose everything. But maybe everything was nothing if it could be lost so fast.

Liken had discovered that she was scared of heights, secretly read erotic stories, and had incredibly ticklish feet.

A friend supports you when you are down. An enemy strikes at your weakest point.

Wine often makes people say things, do things without the distraction of a conscience.

El amor era una debilidad que él no se podía permitir.

Bastard," she cried softly. " Bastard! Why did you ever touch me? I w-was fine until you touched me." "And I was fine until you touched me," he countered in a whisper.

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.

The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.

my partner wants more affection than I'm giving her, she is "needy and dependent." But if I want more affection than she is giving me, then she is "aloof and insensitive.

appreciation expressed in this form reveals little of what's going on in the speaker;

Mucho antes de llegar a la adultez aprendí a comunicarme de una forma impersonal que no requería revelar lo que estaba sucediendo dentro de mí.

Iam not easily frightened. Not because I am brave but because I know that I am dealing with human beings, and that I must try as hard as I can to understand everything that anyone ever does.

Likewise, if we find ourselves unable or unwilling to empathize despite our efforts, it is usually a sign that we are too starved for empathy to be able to offer it to others. Sometimes, if we openly acknowledge that our own distress is preventing us from responding empathically, the other person may come through with the empathy we need.

I scream nonviolently by calling attention to my own desperate needs and pain in the moment.

What's more important? Your company or your life?" It was a rhetorical question. I was warning him that, stripped of his identity at the top of a sixty-thousand-employee organization, he was vulnerable to boredom, dislocation, depression. I'd seen it before in ex-CEOs who didn't prepare well for their corporate exit. It would be "irresponsible" if he didn't create a new identity for himself.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.