Quotes About Vulnerability

when an audience's emotions are engaged, that audience is more vulnerable to suggestion

It is hard to convey the night-waking, body-trembling experience of putting a creation of one's soul out into the world for acceptance and rejection.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

car seat-belts. The vast majority of the time they served no real purpose. Even bad drivers could go years between accidents. But when an accident finally did occur—in that precise instant—a seat-belt became the only thing standing between a chance for life and a grisly death.

Good to know. Because proposing while we're both naked is pretty pathetic. Bad form.

The more irreplaceable and important a person was in one's life, he supposed, the more vulnerable and afraid one became of losing them.

its outer Amazon coating was quickly shredded as incoming fire skinned the vehicle alive, revealing the carbyne-reinforced structure underneath. It was like a Terminator whose face had been torn off to reveal the gleaming, indestructible skeleton within.

Who knew that sex was so much better when the relationship had nothing to do with sex? And

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for her reticence. She knew that he was keeping a huge part of his life from her.

Love was a lizard brain instinct. A survival mechanism bred into the species that was totally separate from reason. Women were extremely vulnerable during pregnancy, and children were helpless for many years. If humans didn't have a mechanism for cementing a pair bond, nothing would remain but selfishness and promiscuity. Certain animal species were wired in the same way. How

Our adversaries had found a way to wipe the professor's backups in the cloud, as well.

Now, to think is to be vulnerable.

Because I was educated in the idea that fear or anxiety was something you didn't share with those nearest and dearest to you. As my dad used to tell me: Never let anyone know if you're about to shit in your pants.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.

I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?

Because although Dawkins may feel that our mystery has been solved - and although science has indeed solved part of it - most of us still do not feel solved. We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings. On the contrary we still experience ourselves, as our ancestors did, as tor and contradictory beings, vulnerable to aspects of ourselves and our world that we cannot understand.

The least attractive-sounding of this trinity is the concept of 'intersectionality'. This is the invitation to spend the rest of our lives attempting to work out each and every identity and vulnerability claim in ourselves and others and then organize along whichever system of justice emerges from the perpetually moving hierarchy which we uncover. It is a system that is not just unworkable but dementing, making demands that are impossible towards ends that are unachievable

And the second theme – more important to our purpose here – is that of the predatory, even vampish younger woman preying on the older, more vulnerable, possibly even helpless male. This was a recognized motif throughout most of history and at least as recently as 1989. It is an awareness that it is not only men who can harass women, but men who can also be the subject of harassment from women.

We live in a world gone crazy for resources. Everybody on Google Earth can look at this place now. If you don't move to protect it, it will disappear. Everything in the world is vulnerable.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

When you keep your sexual conversations, behaviors, pornography, or masturbation a secret, you are