Quotes About Vulnerability

This was what love did. It unhinged you.

feelings come in a daisy chain. all entwined together and beautiful as a whole but there are always the weak flowers somewhere in the links.

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

Remember in a garden, most beautiful and fragrant flower is picked and broken first. So don't be so unique, keep some flaws.

While over all springs up the green-lifed sod, And arch, so light and lofty in its span-- So frail and yet so lasting--tis like man.

The best that he had ever managed in bed, so far, had been the maximum of relief with the minimum of hostility.

They do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing a game and that we do it to shock them.

In any of the world's cities, on a winter night, a boy can be bought for the price of a beer and the promise of warm blankets.

The truth is that, to every genius there is a characteristic weakness, a defect to which it naturally leans, and into which, in those inevitable moments when inspiration flags, it is apt to subside.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

Das war die Frau mit ihren plötzlichen Ängsten, ihren grundlosen Launen, ihren unwillkürlichen Verwirrungen, ihren unmotivierten Kühnheiten, ihren Wagnissen und ihrer reizenden Zartheit der Gefühle.

But the maladies by which a man is afflicted do not nullify the sum total of human passion. To our shame be it spoken, a woman is never so much attached to us as when we are sick.

What husband will be able to sleep peacefully beside his young and beautiful wife while he knows that three celibates, at least, are on the watch; that if they have not already encroached upon his little property, they regard the bride as their destined prey, for sooner or later she will fall into their hands, either by stratagem, compulsive conquest or free choice?

A man must not flatter himself that he knows his wife, and is making her happy unless he sees her often at his knees.

The woman who allows herself to be found out deserves her fate.

Feeble folk are as easily reassured as they are frightened.

Anything may be expected and anything may be supposed of a woman who is in love.

Therefore you see, my friend, that I am not a woman. You do wrong to love me. What! am I to leave the ethereal regions of my pretended strength, make myself humbly small, cringe like the hapless female of all species, that you may lift me up? and then, when I, helpless and broken, ask you for help, when I need your arm, you will repulse me! No, we can never come to terms.

When two human beings are united by pleasure, all social conventionalities are put aside. This situation conceals a reef on which many vessels are wrecked. A husband is lost, if he once forgets there is a modesty which is quite independent of coverings. Conjugal love ought never either to put on or to take away the bandage of its eyes, excepting at the due season.

The most natural feelings are those we are least willing to confess.

If a woman so much as stands alone and by herself somewhere, all sorts of men gather around her showing their teeth.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.