Quotes About Vulnerability

You learn to, when you don't feel safe. You can always take a catnap sitting up.

Only the young, he thought, could withstand the rigors of love.

And he could not believe it. He really could not believe it. It was not unlike falling off his bicycle so many years ago when he was a child, the slow sense of something terrible happening, and the knowledge that there was nothing he could do about it. Watching the pavement come up to meet his cheek.

I have mentioned earlier how easy it is for me to become frightened, and as we drove up this turnpike with barely another car in sight I thought: Oh I wish I had not come! I am afraid of things that are not familiar.

I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.

Mommy, I cried inside myself, Mommy, I am so frightened! And the nice mother I have made up over the years answered: Yes, I know.

But with my mother I didn't dare cry. Both my parents loathed the act of crying, and it's difficult for a child who is crying to have to stop, knowing if she doesn't stop everything will be made worse. This is not an easy position for any child.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Hobbes's citizens realize that they must give up their natural liberty in order to protect them from themselves. They are like the alcoholic who hands the key to his liquor cabinet to a friend and says, "No matter what I say, don't give me back the key." He knows that unless someone stops him, he is a danger to himself and others.

Schaamteloos heb ik mij nu eenmaal altijd het veiligst gevoeld.

Het is mijn redding geweest dat ik mijn verdriet aan de buitenkant draag, waar het niemand kan ontgaan

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Tutto è gelata fragilità, cristallino risonante freddo.

the whores were the strongest social group in the whole country.

I'm afraid of wooden horses, cheap gin, and pretty girls. Especially when they give me presents. And when they go by the name of the woman who defeated Sherlock Holmes.

Bien mirado, el mundo ha dejado de pensar en la muerte. Creer que no vamos a morir nos hace débiles, y peores.

Cuando te adentras en el corazón de una mujer, te expones a un peligroso viaje. Hans Hellmut Kirst, Richard Sorge

Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones.

el principio es cierto: la debilidad sienta bien a una mujer, y nosotras lo sabemos. Nos interesa parecer delicadas y necesitadas del hombre.

Omnes vulnerant, postuma necat. Todas hieren, leyó. La última mata.

El hueco prematuro que una pérdida intuida y posible, tal vez probable, deja de antemano en el vientre y el corazón.

No se puede confiar en alguien que nunca cometió un error. Expone a otros a verse envueltos en el primero que cometa.

Cada sentimiento es un punto débil en la coraza. Una grieta que te hace vulnerable

People are much more dangerous than anything your mind can make up while you're sleeping." "Like people you can't trust?" "Yes," he answered and his voice was quieter. "They're the most dangerous." "How can you tell who they are?" I asked. "That's easy," he said, inhaling slowly from his cigarette. "They're the people who are the hardest to stay away from.