Quotes About Vulnerability

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Don't be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch", and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

...I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes."...

Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips... Die into me or don't come to me at all.

I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive.

Sai la stessa paura che si prova all'inizio di un amore, quando l'intuito ci annuncia le sofferenze che esso ci costerà, e la prudenza ci induce a girarvi intorno senza accostarcisi troppo, ma è un girarvi a spirale, più vicino sempre più vicino, e sai bene che finirai per cadervi dentro: a pagare ogni istante di gioia con mille dolori.

Love like you've never had your heart broken before.

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

The weak fear happiness itself.

In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

I smiled in my weakness.

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.