Quotes About Vulnerability

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

To love is to be vulnerable.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Love like you'll never be hurt.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

To love is to undress our names.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.