Quotes About Vulnerability

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

'If The Weather Permits' was closer to my heart because it was a woman closer to my age, with a contemporary background like mine. I felt for that character. I've seen so many women like that - smart women who are a wreck when it comes to their emotional lives.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.

When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'

Here's the thing about The Go-Go's: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

I once had a therapist fall asleep on me. That really wrecks your self-esteem.

I would be a nervous wreck on a date, which sounds crazy because I'm a confident woman but I wouldn't know what to do myself.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face - I'm just gone.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

I can't wrestle a match without getting my ankles taped because they feel like they'll shatter on me.

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

That's one of the things I always tried to do as champ. If you saw me at house shows, I was going to make you think I was going down. If I was wrestling Kane, I could lose. I'm wrestling Batista, I could lose. I'm wrestling Big Show, Undertaker, you name it, I could lose.

When I started out on 'The Biggest Loser,' for me it was kind of embarrassing to be on national TV and go from this wrestling icon, this Olympic gold medalist, to being on 'The Biggest Loser.'

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in fact, the whole of the left arm.