Quotes About Vulnerability

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too.

You can take a guy to a coffee shop, but you can't make him bare his soul.

If love is easy…" I hesitate. "You're not doing it right.

All those hours spent together, playing, talking, laughing, lovemaking... I should know him by now, surely. I should know the secret, vulnerable corners of his brain. Shouldn't I? But then, he did always keep part of himself hidden away, I remind myself. As though he couldn't trust it with anyone, not even me.

For all that I loved him, I never got to the core of Joe. I never reached his innermost Russian doll. He always kept a part of himself locked well away.

He hurt me so much, I can hardly bear to look at him. But if I needed someone to use a scalpel to save my life, he's the one I'd turn to. Like a shot.

But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

What is it that goes on four feet, three feet and two feet . . . and is most feeble when it walks on four?" His answer was "man—on all fours as a baby, on two feet at maturity, on three as an old man with a stick.

shorn of everything—you're their only hope.

One must see how no attack is so feared as that of laughter... because more than any other this attack isolates the one attacked.

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.

I've been within an inch of my life.

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you?

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.