Quotes About Vulnerability

My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

I think how there are fault lines in men as old and uncharted as the earth itself. Made known just before the ground starts separating and by then it's too late.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

Im so affected, that even my lungs are affected.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs, senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly?

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.

The sensitive suffer more; but they love more, and dream more.

sabiendo, como lo sabe por experiencia, que el principal enemigo de los poderosos, aunque oculto como todo lo falso y endeble, no es otro que su propio poder.

The worst stab wound is the one to the heart. Sure, most people survive it, but the heart is never quite the same. There's always a scar, which I guess, is meant to remind you that even for a little while, someone made your heart beat faster. And that's a scar you can live with, proudly. All the days of your life.

And love? Well, if sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.

Ordinarily, only the person whom we really love, who touches our very roots, has the capacity to drive us crazy, and it may be only this person who has the capacity to help us find our deepest strengths.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.