Quotes About Vulnerability

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

But Jesus felt her yearning, her fragility masked by bravado. He always broke down barriers, never erected them.

Learning how to do SM is like learning how to have sex all over again.

If you don't give yourself room to fail, Zack, you'll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can't even breathe.

If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you?do you have the feeling that?that a great empty space is being hollowed out inside you, that there is something inside you that is just?dying? HAEMON: Yes, I do, I do.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

The strongest passion is fear.

The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble.

AINSI JE RESTE SEUL, oublié de lui qui dort dans mes bras. La mer est calme. Je n'ose bouger. Sa présence serait plus terrible que son voyage hors de moi. Peut­ être vomirait-il sur ma poitrine. Et qu'y pourrais-je faire ? Trier ses vomissures ? y chercher parmi le vin, la viande, la bile, ces violettes et ces roses qu'y délayent et délient les filets de sang ?

Elle se servait beaucoup de sa larme pour amollir son mal.

The pain between them at this moment is more intimate than anything that has come before. It is also, incidentally, more intimate than anything she has shared with her fiancé. It is devastating.

I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

I've made two mistakes, gentlemen. I've confided in a woman and I've slept in a bed.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.