Quotes About Vulnerability

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.

With an ache, Karras stared at the bowed and defenseless head. He yearned to be able to take Chris's hand and assure her that all would be well. But he couldn't. He didn't believe it.

The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. . . . He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will.

Anyone with even the remotest understanding of EMP and the threat to the nation should have been going insane before it hit.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

Women's weapon, water-drops

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II

'Tis the strumpet's plagueTo beguile many and be beguil'd by one.

You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

The chariest maid is prodigal enoughIf she unmask her beauty to the moon;Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes;The canker galls the infants of the springToo oft before their buttons be disclos'd,And in the morn and liquid dew of youthContagious blastments are most imminent.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at.