Quotes About Vulnerability

Si un hombre no conoce nunca la amistad femenina se expone a una orfandad espiritual atroz: la de los chingones invulnerables que pueden ser quizá exitosos donjuanes, pero jamás conocen el lado suave y luminoso del universo.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

In general, we had the feeling that we had been attacked and we had to defend ourselves. We even thought that, as Germans, we were invincible. That was the feeling back then.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

One goes through life like a flower with its face turned to the sun, ever seeking, ever hoping, wanting to trust others, but afraid to do so. How much better if we trusted one another, if we saw only the good things, the finer things in our fellow creatures! How much better if we were frank and open, if we went on our ways without the cloak of hypocrisy and lies that we wear now.

Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.

And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself.

We know the danger of this game, having both made the mistake of playing a similar game with our other friends, in which you tell three terrible stories about yourself, but two of them are lies. Your friends have to figure out the true one. It's like that Meat Loaf song, but when you think of that title, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," what you really mean to say here, is: "One of These Three Is Awful.

All you do when you are visible is map ways for yourself to be harmed by others, to give them the tools and strategies.

In a complex system such as our world today, this is all it might take for the overall system to become destabilized, leading to a collapse.

we should be aware that no society is invulnerable and that every society in the history of the world has ultimately collapsed. The

we are, in fact, more susceptible than we might wish to think. At

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make you go into a corner by myself and cry for hours.

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Living in a place like East New York requires developing coping strategies, and for many residents, the more vulnerable older and younger ones in particular, the key is to find safe havens. As on every other Thursday morning this spring, today nine middle-aged and elderly residents who might otherwise stay home alone will gather in the basement of the neighborhood's most heavily used public amenity, the New Lots branch library.

When human beings are ill, they often make a show of their injuries and parade them so that others may see and give them sympathy. It is just the reverse with an animal living in its natural state. Asking no sympathy, deeming rather that weakness of any kind is something to be ashamed of, it crawls away into some hidden corner and there, alone, it awaits the outcome – either recovery or death.

Peace is the opposite of security.

My heart was an onion making me cry.

Rest can be as deadly a weapon as a pistol or grenade.