Quotes About Vulnerability

You must have known it yourself, Erlend- a thicket of briers and thorns and nettles had you sowed around you- how could you draw a young maid in to your side and she not be torn and wounded and bleeding-" –p. 93

Terror does things to you. It hardens a part of you. I have heard people call others hard-hearted, but it's not your heart that turns to stone when something awful happens. It's your gut, where all real feelings come from. That was froze up inside me and I didn't long to thaw it.

Mrs Pargeter reflected, not for the first time, that there is within the human psyche an infinite yearning for humiliation.

PÃ…â"¢átelství už jsou taková - kÃ…â"¢ehké konstrukce, které vydrží nápor bouÃ…â"¢e, a pÃ…â"¢esto se mohou rozpadnout na tisíc kousk? bez konkrétního d?vodu. KÃ…â"¢ehké jako bÃ…â"¢idlice.

I was reminded of an African proverb: when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

My highs can be very high, but my lows are often still very low. I have never forgotten the feeling of the railings under my hands. The cold metal, the rush of traffic, the lorry horn. It is always within me. Always part of me. I was a slip away from tragedy. I know I am still.

the development of a fully operational quantum computer would imperil our personal privacy, destroy electronic commerce and demolish the concept of national security. A quantum computer would jeopardize the stability of the world.

Správné použití kvalitní Å¡ifry je velkou pomocí pro obÄ› komunikující strany, avÅ¡ak nekorektní zacházení se slabou Å¡ifrou m?že vyvolat velmi faleÅ¡ný pocit bezpe?í.

The correct use of a strong cipher is a clear boon to sender and receiver, but the misuse of a weak cipher can generate a very false sense of security.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.

Un amor auténtico debería de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus límites y su gratuidad originaria; así no pretendería ser una salvación sino una relación entre seres humanos.

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.

El día que una mujer pueda no amar con su debilidad sino con su fuerza, no escapar de sí misma sino encontrarse, no humillarse sino afirmarse, ese día el amor será para ella, como para el hombre, fuente de vida y no un peligro mortal.

No dia em que for possível à mulher amar na totalidade, não na sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma mas para se encontrar, não para se demitir mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal

And sometimes I think myself sensible, and sometimes I accuse myself of cowardice. In fact I am defenseless because I have never supposed I had any rights. I expect a lot of the people I love - too much, perhaps. I expect a lot, and I even ask for it. But I do not know how to insist.

Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai

the little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality; it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment, she is grasped by others as a thing; on the street, eyes follow her, her body is subject to comments; she would like to become invisible she is afraid of becoming flesh and afraid to show her flesh

La Malédiction qui pèse sur le mariage, c'est que trop souvent les individus s'y rejoignent dans leur faiblesse, non dans leur force, c'est que chacun demande à l'autre au lieu de se plaire à lui donner.

I loved being loved: the bleakness of my future terrified me.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Thus it happens that those who have force on loan from fate count on it too much and are destroyed.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace . (Routledge; 1 edition, November 14, 2002) Originally published 1947.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The fall of Troy. The fall of the petals from a fruit tree in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence— that is beautiful. Why? It projects the soul beyond time.