Quotes About Vulnerability

Tal vez todo lo que nos asusta es, en su más profunda esencia, algo indefenso que requiere nuestro amor.

solo quien está dispuesto a todo, quien no excluye ninguna experiencia, incluso la más incomprensible, vivirá la relación con otra persona como algo vivo y él mismo sondeará las profundidades de su propio ser.

because letter-writing requires more of me than just the basic wherewithal:

If we imagine our being as a room of any size, it seems that most of us know only a single corner of that room, a spot by the window, a narrow strip on which we keep walking back and forth. That gives a kind of security. But isn't insecurity with all its dangers so much more human? We are not prisoners of that room.

Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life, in a single gush, wants to stream, I held you to me: I saw you turn red from me. How could anyone express what took place between us? We made up for everything there was never time for. I matured strangely in every impulse of unperformed youth, and you, love, had wildest childhood over my heart…

Wir haben, wo wir uns lieben, ja nur dies: einander lassen; denn daß wir uns halten, das fällt uns leicht und ist nicht erst zu erlernen.

Tehlike, emniyette olmaktan daha güvenli.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

We are unutterably alone, essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important to us.

Perhaps everything terrifying is at bottom the helplessness that seeks our help.

Darum können junge Menschen, die Anfänger in allem sind, die Liebe noch nicht: sie müssen sie lernen. Mit dem ganzen Wesen, mit allen Kräften, versammelt um ihr einsames, banges, aufwärts schlagendes Herz, müssen sie lieben lernen.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

What a group of people we were, I thought. Why, you could cause us the greatest humiliation simply by confronting us with something we liked.

I didn't want to be trouble to anyone," I said. "Everybody has to be trouble to somebody.

What a group of people we were, I thought. Why, you could cause us the greatest humiliation simply by confronting us with something we liked. Not all of us, but so many.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

As soon as there is life there is danger.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.