Quotes About Vulnerability

The infirmity of his age.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

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

You take my house when you do take the propThat doth sustain my house; you take my lifeWhen you do take the means whereby I live.

The weakest kind of fruitDrops earliest to the ground.

Comes at the last, and with a little pinBores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

So I had to learn that a lopsided relationship doesn't work. The exercise of power is inevitably self-defeating. What happens is that the person without power loses their self-respect, their whole entity becomes less, and the reasons their partner fell in love with them disappear.

Each of these sparks is linked to a specific threat about which society had been fully informed but against which it had left itself poorly protected. Afterward, the fact that these sparks were foreseeable but poorly foreseen gives rise to a new sense of urgency about institutional dysfunction and civic vulnerability. This marks the beginning of the vertiginous spiral of Crisis.

What the hell was I doing letting you anywhere near a journalist? It's like giving a seal pup to a shark.

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.

Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.

If you drop one of us naked and alone into the wilderness, you've just fed the creatures of the local forest. But if you drop one hundred of us naked into the wilderness, you've introduced a new top predator to this unfortunate stretch of woods.

Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each other. In short, without trust, people focus on self-protection and become unwilling to make themselves vulnerable. (...) People who lack trust are limited in what they can accomplish together.

Even the mightiest oak can fall by a gentle touch

As tempted more; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

The white men have ways of doing you favors that can get you killed." Crazy

The soft underbelly of the Axis.

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld. Wir brauchen die mit dem heißen heiser geschluchzten Gefühl. Die zu Baum Baum und zu Weib Weib sagen und ja sagen und nein sagen: laut und deutlich und dreifach und ohne Konjunktiv.

Society is complex and harsh, demanding that you struggle hard to survive. No one can make you happy. Everything depends on you as to whether or not you attain happiness…. A human being is destined to a life of great suffering if he is weak and vulnerable to his external surroundings.