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Quotes About Vulnerability

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.
~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.
~ Alysia Reiner
The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.
~ Andy Warhol
Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.
~ Jacques Leclercq
Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
~ John Steinbeck
When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
~ Laz Alonso
I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.
~ Gary B.B. Coleman
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.
~ Geneen Roth
Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Some fear them, but they fear everyone.
~ Jean-Pierre Camus
I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
~ Jon Bon Jovi
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.
~ Kiera Cass
Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.
~ Ann Aguirre
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
~ Anne Carson
Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
~ Bernard-Joseph Saurin
You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that's okay, love is better.
~ Caroline Paul
Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Children are like fingers. No matter which finger you bite, it hurts.
~ Choi Woo-shik
Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.
~ Colleen Saidman
I believe love opens people up.
~ David Hare
Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.
~ Emily Saliers
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
~ Nicole Krauss