Quotes About Vulnerability

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I've got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me - it was a real masterclass - on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.

I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

At things like DragWorld and Drag Con, you see young people come out in droves and be moved to tears, or hear their stories about how they found strength in what we do.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

One night I'd had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

Most of my friends are male. And I've known some of them to literally go through mental breakdowns and still not talk about how they feel. Except to me. My shoulders are sodden with the tears of men.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.

Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.

I don't think you're very strong unless you've cried a few tears. You've never really lived.

There have been a few times in my career when I have been close to tears after completing an innings, but rarely when I am waiting to bat.

Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

I had tears when the first look from 'Hero' was released.

I think sometimes people expect people to burst into tears. But, I think sometimes emotion, as I've seen, shock, can have a lot of different manifestations. Sometimes it's tears and sometimes it's just complete stoicism.

I was very nervous about everything. I was the girl who would burst into tears at the drop of a hat.