Quotes About Vulnerability

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

You know at the end of the day, when you close the door and you're all alone... And you strip off your armor and lower your guard and peel away the mask... When there's nobody watching and nothing to hide... And you no longer need to be strong or clever or pretty or brave... There's just you. That's it. That's the soul.

I'll tell you no lies. The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

When you have no hope, you have nothing to fear, nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing to lose.

Every time we make an assumption—for example, that we understand our spouse—we are exposing ourselves like an open wound. Assumptions and expectations that rely on someone or something else leave us vulnerable. At any moment, one of the uncountable possible contradictions can pop up and sprinkle salt on our assumptions, causing us to flinch and howl.

In the landscapes we love, our weaknesses take on another aspect.

The heat brings to the surface all my weaknesses.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

Can I hold your hand?" he asked. I put mine in his. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here.