Quotes About Vulnerability

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time.

Quote from Ashes-pg. 39 Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

My dear man, every woman has felt herself surrounded by foxes at one time or another, if not by wolves.

Womankind is imprudent and soft or flexible. Imprudent because she cannot consider with wisdom and reason the things she hears and sees; and soft she is because she is easily bowed. —JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (c. 347–407)

No, liebchen, not if it's too painful for you to talk about it." "Devious sheenie bastard." "Devious, yes. Sheenie, yes. Bastard, no. What did you used to do in bed?

If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.

When you really love, you can never be hurt.

If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself… which of you will first have the courage to raise it?

Shyness has laws: you can only give yourself, tragically, to those who least understand.

This is nothing of medical interest — a small chill. Diseases are not interested in those who want to die.' And then with one of those characteristic swerves of association, like a swallow turning in mid-air she added, 'Oh! Nessim, I have always been so strong. Has it prevented me from being truly loved?

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.