Quotes About Vulnerability

Although Leslie was vulnerable to manipulation and abuse, it didn't mean that she was an uncomplicated person. She manuevered between two worlds: the world of her parents and the kid world. In the kid world, you could talk about boys and sex, but you didn't bring it home. Home was reserved for nice, polite conversation.

Et puis ce qui me plaît chez elle, c'est qu'elle a l'air encore plus égarée que moi.

Thereafter she saw his intellectual showmanship as a performance, deep down he could be as vulnerable as anyone

She slipped free crusty pies filled with apple-flavored lumps of sugar to the runaway rent boys she befriended who operated around the station With no idea that in years to come she'd be attending their funerals They didn't realize unprotected sex meant a dance with death Nobody did

hey, we're all fucked up, aren't we? she said dipping her bread so far into her soup it drowned and couldn't easily be rescued.

I've fallen in love properly for the first time in my life with the most wonderful woman I've ever met, who desires me from a position of inner strength, Amma, and it might sound odd but that's so new to me and darned sexy, like she can rip my clothes off whenever she wants to (which she does) and I feel helpless and dominated (which I like), whereas my previous lovers desired me from a position of weakness, of adoration, which just isn't interesting to me any more

U godinama nakon toga shvatit ?u da osoba koja ima kontrolu u vezi ovisi o slabom partneru, a ipak ta tobožnja slaba osoba procvate kad oti?e, dok je ona, navodno ja?a, manje sposobna sama se iznijeti. Ako snagu crpiš pod?injavanjem druge osobe, onda si ti slab i ovisan.

Devant le mystère il convient de s'ouvrir et de se dévoiler tout entier afin de forcer le mystère à se dévoiler à son tour.

I want to see things that I would never want to have happen to anyone I love. They remind me just how precious life is; how it dangles.

So my illnesses create a disturbance? They attack me without warning and leave me insensible wherever I may be. I cannot be expected, before feeling ill, to ask people who happen to be there to leave the room.

No one person should be forced to keep everything to themselves. Not everything. The mind is small, the heart, weak.

If a nation is morally judged by how we treat the weakest and most vulnerable among us, our health care system fails miserably.

Every time they have time to queue up and come slow-rolling through, plenty of people get killed. The most hopeless feeling in the world is when you just have to sit there and wait for it, knowing you're either going to be dead in a couple of seconds, or you're still going to be one of the lucky ones, one of the breathing ones who came through it.

Truth was, I was afraid to be. I was afraid that my joy would bring back more bad.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

Weaknesses You had none I had one: I loved.

Schwächen: Du hattest keine. Ich hatte eine. Ich liebte.

When the sharks the sharks devour Little fishes have their hour.

How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love?

Quello che amo mi ha detto che ha bisogno di me Per questo ho cura di me stessa guardo dove cammino e temo che ogni goccia di pioggia mi possa uccidere

La legge è fatta esclusivamente per lo sfruttamento di coloro che non la capiscano, o ai quali la brutale necessità non permette di rispettarla.

Quella che amo mi ha detto che ha bisogno di me. Per questo guardo dove cammino e temo che ogni goccia di pioggia mi possa uccidere.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.