Quotes About Vulnerability

The abandonment of personality that is a possible prelude to love

He picked up his friend, who was so weak that he began to cry. "Maurice – I'm a fool." "Be a fool," said Maurice, and carried him upstairs, undressed him, and put him to bed.

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart; men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help.

I have shared with Alec,' he said after deep thought. 'Shared what?' 'All I have. Which includes my body.

You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you are right not to. But it would hurt a little less if I knew why." "Because"—a phrase came to her, and she accepted it—"you're the sort who can't know any one intimately.

She was silent. This cruel, vicious fellow knew of strange refinements. The horrible truth, that wicked people are capable of love, stood naked before her, and her moral being was abashed.

Women—I heard you say the other day—are never at ease till they tell their faults out loud.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

bir insan bir insanda ba?ka bir hayat?n kap?s?n? görünce a??k olur. ne mutluluktur öte yandaki, ne de tad?yla merakland?ran bir ac?. a?k diye buna denir: bir insan bir insanda tekinsiz bir ev görür. insan yaras? yaras?na denk geleni seviyor demek ki.

Birbirimize dokunmalar?m?z korkak kelebeklerdir, dokununca renkleri y?k?lan.

Oysa ben hikayesini ilk kez anlat?rken dikkate al?nmayan insanlar?n aniden ölebilece?inden korkar?m.

alara, sen neleri terk ettin annen gibi yenilmek için? biz ne zaman annemiz gibi olduk? asl?nda babam?z olan o adamlar? nas?l bulduk? yenildi?imiz bir maç?n rövan?? bu, alara dikkatli ol. o adamlarda baban? öldürebildin mi? ihtimal öldüremedin. yenildin

?nsan çok yaln?zken, bir tane daha kendinden do?uruyordu içinde, 'Korkma!' desin diye…

Bir kere teslim olursam ihtiyarlay?p ölürüm. Biri bana sar?l?rsa ayakta duramam. Çünkü… Çünkü kalbim ablukada kal?r o vakit. Dü?mana teslim olmak daha kolay. Onurun k?r?l?r en fazla, ama beni seven birine teslim olursam… Esir dü?erim.

It's a funny fact about humanity: fear and pain, rather than courage and joy, are diminished when they are shared

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Charlie had always been a sucker for this part... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you... truly understands you... to your soul... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself.

It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.

only [people] could trust that "thing," they would be less afraid of being touched, less afraid of loving each other, less afraid of being changed by each other. Life would be different. Our children would not be the victims that they are now, we would not be either. But for some reason love is the most frightful thing; something that the human being is most in need of and dreads most.

Definition of laying: you get cut sooner or later.

Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.

The paradox is that the main inhibitor of useful telling is often our own failure to inquire in a way that makes it safe for others to tell us the truth, or at least to share all of what they know.

The goal of relationship building should be to reduce each other's blind spots by each revealing more of our concealed selves.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.