Quotes About Vulnerability

I am not a very good actor.

I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.

Good friends can have tough conversations.

My failings are the result of my own inter-personal abilities. I am not a good husband or boyfriend.

When you go to the darkest place, all reason and logic deserts you and you are very dependent on having good people around you.

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

But when at long last he had got his head out over the side of the bed, in mid-air, he became afraid of continuing in this manner, for if he were to fall like that it would take a miracle for him not to sustain a head injury. And consciousness was the last thing he wanted to lose at the present time; he would rather stay in bed.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

Nikada nismo tako slabo zašti?eni od patnje,kao onda kada volimo.

I want to be inside your darkest everything

Good Advice You've a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

Sensuality often hastens the Growth of Love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.