Quotes About Vulnerability

Where that rage comes from? Partly, I would say it's a sense that a life can be taken away from you, quickly, in a dumb second for the dumbest reason. That makes me mad, defensive and protective.

The most important stuff, what was closest to the bone, was just what you never talked about. There were no words for it...The trivial and silly is what you spend your day chatting about. You could ask your friends how they liked your hair, but you could never ask them what you really wanted to know: Is there hope for me, yes or no?

Old age is but the reduced capacity of a failing machine.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.

Ella sería el báculo de todos los que la rodearan; pero si sus piernas flaquearan, si su cabeza no le mantuviese firme en su sendero, si su corazón empezaba a bambolear y enflaquecer, ¿quién la sostendría a ella?, ¿quién sería su báculo? [...]»

Nos miramos a los ojos con una de esas miradas que desnudan las almas, nos vimos éstas al desnudo

A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable. Instead of deciding how to act in terms of personal goals, he has to surrender to the things that his body has been programmed (or misprogrammed) to do.

Friendships allow us to express parts of our beings that we seldom have the opportunity to act out otherwise.

A true friend is someone we can occasionally be crazy with, someone who does not expect us to be always true to form. It is someone who shares our goal of self-realization, and therefore is willing to share the risks that any increase in complexity entails.