Quotes About Vulnerability

Somehow in the whore the cold womb, constantly subjected to desire, produces a phenomenon. All the eroticism comes to the surface. The constant living with a penis inside of one does something fascinating to a woman. The womb seems to be exposed, to be present in every aspect of her.

Pouvoir, au milieu de la folie, redevenir humaine et pitoyable.

but the truth is I am terribly weak. And I crave the balm of beautiful and soft things.

I am a child compared to you, because when the womb in you speaks it enfolds everything—it is the darkness I adore.

Es cierto, como dice Hugo, que yo llevo mis pensamientos y especulaciones al diario y que él sólo es consciente del dolor que puedo causarle cuando ocurre algún incidente. Sin embargo, yo soy su diario. Sólo es capaz de pensar en voz alta conmigo o a través mío.

We give to our friends only a small part of ourselves. In the climate of love another being emerges.

Don't hesitate to betray your ignorance. It's no crime.

What corrodes a love are the secrets.

I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don't find them—not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever! (Now they're singing "Heaven and Ocean" from La Gioconda.)

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Your eyes make me shy.

So bewies mir das Wagnis, dass es nicht zerstörerisch ist, wenn wir unser Innerstes aufs Spiel setzen, wenn wir unseren verborgenen und echten Kern anbieten. Wie können nicht zerstört werden.

Ja sam jedino sposobna zbrajati život, dok tako prepun ne postane nepodnošljiv, odve? snažan, i raspršujem se u krizama histerije, u milijune komadi?a, zbog prevelike koli?ine života... Prava je patnja živjeti u 'unutrašnjosti života'... netko bi me morao u?initi nesvjesnom. Ubiti me. U?initi me neosjetljivom, nemo?nom. Dijelovi mene morali bi umrijeti, ali ja sam sve dobro zaštitila od umiranja.

If you needed anything, all you had to do was say, 'Mom, I need this,' and my mom would be at my house with it," she says, crying. "And now it's like, if I need something, who do I call?

The world has many edges, and all of us dangle from them by a very delicate thread. The key is not to let go.

I'd keep it [Kevlar vest] with me in my vehicle, but I wouldn't bring it into people's homes. Surrounded by Bosnians who didn't have protection, I felt that it was inappropriate for me to stay sealed off. I wanted them to tell me their stories, risk exposing themselves to me. I couldn't ask that of someone if I wasn't willing to expose myself as well.

Here, you grow up believing there's a safety net, that things can never completely fall apart. Katrina showed us all that's not true.

My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop.

Une autre chose que j'ignorais, plus importante encore peut-être, c'est que j'étais d'une santé très délicate.

These scenes, when one of the parties offers more of his heart than the other wants, are always painful.

The manners and customs of bugs are peculiar; they wait till the candle is out, and then, as soon as it is dark, sally forth—not at random; they make straight for the neck, the place of their predilection; sometimes they select the wrists; a few rare ones prefer the ankles. It is not exactly known for what reason they inject into the sleeper's skin an exquisitely irritating oily substance, the virulence of which is intensified by the slightest rubbing...

Ces scènes où l'un offre plus de son cÅ"ur qu'on ne lui demande, sont toujours pénibles

Aujourd'hui que j'ose appeler par son nom le sentiment si longtemps inavoué de mon cÅ"ur.

La peur du ridicule obtient de nous les pires lâchetés