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Quotes About Vulnerability

Baby, baby, baby Can't you stay with me tonight Oh baby, baby, baby Don't my kisses please you right You were so hard to find The beautiful ones, they hurt you everytime Paint a perfect picture Bring to life a vision in one's mind The beautiful ones Always smash the picture Always, every time If I told you baby That I was in love with you Oh baby, baby, baby If we got married Would that be cool? You make me so confused The beautiful ones You always seem to lose
~ Prince
The man in my hospital room that day was the man I loved, and will always love. He didn't have to try to be strong and decisive or sexy, he wasn't afraid to show his warmth or vulnerability. He didn't have to act the part of Elvis Presley, superstar. He was just a man, my husband.
~ Priscilla Presley
A mud hut cannot withstand great shocks.
~ Proverb
Even a sheep with the skin of a tiger is afraid of the wolf.
~ Proverb
On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.
~ Proverb
The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger
~ Proverb
The wolf bemoans the sheep, and then eats it.
~ Proverb
The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep.
~ Proverb
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
~ Publilius Syrus
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
~ Publilius Syrus
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
~ Publilius Syrus
I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
Si le damos la vuelta al nido ni un solo huevo quedará intacto, aunque puede que las grietas no sean visibles.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
all of us naked as the day we were born, each of us a candle in the darkness, because while the moon is our soul sister, unlike her we are no one's reflection—we shine in dark places by the light of our own being.
~ Quan Barry
It's explained that all relationship require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
~ Quentin Crisp
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
~ Quentin Crisp
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
~ Quentin Crisp
A little old lady once said to me, 'I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.
~ Quentin Crisp
There is no great dark man. Even under an exterior as rugged as a mountain range, there lurks the same wounded, wincing psyche that cripples the rest of us. Where we are led to think we will find strength, we shall discover force; where we hope for ruthlessness, we shall unearth spite; and when we think we are clinging desperately to a rock, it is falling upon us.
~ Quentin Crisp
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.
~ Quentin Crisp
I'm okay now, just embarrassed. Sorry about this humiliating display." "Display?" Marvin snorts. "What are you talking about? We're human people; human people cry. It's a good thing.
~ Quentin Tarantino
She's too stoned to run, but stoned enough to be terrified.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Little hearts, though safe and protected, never contribute anything. No one benefits from their shrunken sympathies and visions. On the other hand, hearts that have embraced the disciplines of ministry—though they are vulnerable—are also the hearts that possess the most joy and leave their heart prints on the world. Cultivate
~ R. Kent Hughes
Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
~ R. Scott Bakker