Quotes About Vulnerability

What to say? That I would have loved to make the trip but was busy staying out of the mental hospital? It's so humiliating—so degrading. If I knew I wouldn't get caught, I'd love to lie about it—invent an acceptable cancer, that recurs and vanishes, that people could understand—that wouldn't make them frightened and uncomfortable.

There is a basic emotional spectrum from which we cannot and should not escape, and I believe that depression is in that spectrum, located near not only grief but also love. Indeed I believe that all the strong emotions

No one can do anything but beg for help (if he can do even that) at the lowest depths of a major depression, but once the help is provided, it must also be accepted.

Disabled people are protected by fragile laws, and if they are judged to have an identity rather than an illness, they may forfeit those safeguards.

A veces me pregunto cómo se las arreglan todos aquellos que no escriben, componen o pintan para liberarse de la locura, la melancolía y el miedo al pánico inherente a la condición humana».

Pot fi, într-o relaÈ›ie imperfect?, mult mai bine decât când sunt singur?.

Life, which had until then seemed to be a solid surface upon which I stood, went suddenly soft and yielding, and I began to slip through it.

In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.

Ne exprim?m iubirea, deoarece satisfacÈ›ia adus? de iubire este enorm?, È™i continu?m s? ne exprim?m iubirea È™i s? acÈ›ion?m protector, deoarece pierderea iubirii e traumatizant?. Dac? n-am simÈ›i durere la pierderea fiinÈ›ei iubite, dac? am avea pl?cerea iubirii, dar n-am simÈ›i nimic când obiectul iubirii noastre e ruin?, am fi considerabil mai puÈ›in protectori decât suntem.

Just as the only real antidote to the temptations of money is lavish generosity, so the only real antidote to the temptations of power is choosing to spend our power in the opposite of the way the world encourages us to spend it: not on getting closer to the sources of additional power or on securing our own round-the-clock sense of comfort and control, but spend it on getting closer to the relatively powerless.

most conversations take at least seven minutes to really begin.1 Up until that point, we are able to rely on our usual repertoire of topics—the weather, routine reports about our day, minimal and predictable chitchat. But around seven minutes, there is almost always a point where someone takes a risk—or could take a risk. The risk may be silence; it may be an unexpected question or observation; it may be an expression of a deeper or different emotion than we usually allow.

I turn it off. I try to relax. I take a deep breath. But I can't get that scene out of my mind where that poor kid who is sitting up late all by himself watching a horror movie suddenly has a group of blood-sucking axe-wielding freaks

She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.

I really look awful, and I never bother to primp up or try to be appealing because I just don't want anyone to get involved with me. And that's the truth. I play down my good features and play up the bad ones. So I look awful and I wear the wrong pants and the wrong shoes and I come at the wrong time with the wrong friends, and I say the wrong things and I talk to the wrong person, and then still sometimes somebody gets interested and I freak out and I wonder, What did I do wrong?

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

We are made to bleed and scab and heal and bleed again and turn every scar into a joke. We are made to fight and fuck and talk and fight again and sit around and laugh until we choke.

Ali znaš što? ... Srce je staklena narukvica. Jedan trenutak nepažnje i cijelo je u komadi?ima ... to znamo, zar ne? Ali i dalje nastavljamo nositi staklene narukvice. Svaki put kad se razbiju, mi kupimo nove nadaju?i se da ?e ovaj put duže trajati. Kako smo blesave, mi žene. Trebale bismo nositi narukvice od granita i u to pretvoriti naša srca. Ali one ne bi tako lijepo uhvatile svjetlost ili zanosno zveckale...

Only those who have been truly afraid can understand the crippling hold it can have on you.

Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck. Sheila turns her head, Go slowly and be careful, she says.

kind of necessary acceptance will form around her, like a lobster making its new shell, one that will be soft and easily breakable in the beginning but so hard that only lobster crackers can shatter it in the end. She can hardly wait.

her skin, which she has hardly

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.