Quotes About Vulnerability

Just say you're not ready." "Does that work?" "Sometimes." I wanted to ask Sam about the other side of "sometimes," but I didn't want to be too personal, and I didn't want to know deep down.

It's okay to feel things. And to be who you are about them.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.

The youth perceived that the time had come. He was about to be measured. For a moment he felt in the face of his great trial like a babe, and the flesh over his heart seemed very thin.

In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

El hecho de que oficiales y soldados rasos se vinieran abajo bajo la constante tensión y vulnerabilidad no es nada extraordinario. Lo verdaderamente extraordinario es que tantos hombres no se hundiesen.

mentor, Frederick the Great, had warned, "He who defends everything, defends nothing."6

They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone's pick to be the top soldier in the company, was the first to break, while the soft-talking kid who was hardly noticed in camp was the standout in combat. These are the clichés of war novels precisely because they are true. They

I think that's the nature of many relationships anyway, most relationships. There's that element of….you would call it prostitution.

I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

Everyone else new you ever meet, and this continues through life, is stronger than you are, knows the system better and sees right through to the back of your brain and finds what they see to be wholly inadequate. Everyone you encounter carries, as it were, a huge club behind their back, while all you hold behind yours is a weedy cotton-bud.

This is all you really need, isn't it? Just one good friend. Somebody you can be stupid with. Somebody who'll peel you up off the ground, prop you against the wall.

It's soft at the end. Not just the pain, but the world.

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

We are creating gods, and we may be their first victims.

Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

The most important things are the hardest to say

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.