Quotes About Vulnerability

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I'm terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.