Quotes About Vulnerability

With tears in her eyes, Alexandra assured him that the husband and father was infinitely more precious to her than the tsar whose throne she had shared. Nicholas finally broke. Laying his head on his wife's breast, he sobbed like a child.

Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.

It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's the living.

Sometimes," Llry told Rowan, "to feign an opening, is to invite your opponent's disaster.

Here is a difference between the Warrior and the Hero. The man (or the boy) accessing the Hero, as we've said, does not know his limitations; he is romantic about his invulnerability. The warrior, however, through his clarity of thinking realistically assesses his capacities and his limitations in any given situation.

What you will see, unless you know what to look for, is rage. But under the rage is a sense of worthlessness, of vulnerability and weakness, for behind the Tyrant lies the other pole of the King's bipolar shadow system, the Weakling. If he can't be identified with the King energy, he feels he is nothing.

We were so close to being one of the actual victems. It makes you feel humble.

If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.

He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.

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.

Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target.

It has taken me the time since you diedto discover you are as human as I am…if I am.

I grow too merry, when I stand in my nakedness to dress.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

he had no doubt that the earth would be a vastly different place—a place where the sword of Damocles hung above it by only the most slender thread, forever after.

He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity makes it conspicuous.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

The wild animal loves pure men because those men, at one time, were themselves prey.

But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.

They needed me, Mackilwraith; they needed me. And if there is one thing which utterly destroys a boy's character, it is to be needed. Boys are unendurable unless they are wholly expendable.

they were frightened by the concept of a brain tumor; the idea that anybody could have one; even they. The