Quotes About Vulnerability

Trop se pencher sur eux, c'est la meilleure position pour recevoir un coup de pied au derrière. (p. 26)

A veces el Estado, con el pretexto de ayudar a los inválidos, termina por tratarlos como si fuesen inválidos.

El idioma está tan indefenso como los animales. Todos los atropellan con impunidad. Y esas dos causas perdidas son las que he tomado como mías, por el gusto de perder.

Qué policía había que nos defendiera a nosotros cuando nos iban a matar? De haber habido, nos habrían detenido para extorsionarnos.Pero no, andaban extorsionando en el centro.

If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

Funny how being decrepit, diseased and sentenced to death gave you so much power. She couldn't go to Morocco nor even drive herself into town. She could hardly move off the couch. But she could say whatever she wanted: she had bitch licence.

Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?

I am about to reveal to you," I commenced, "something which I would not for my life allow to come to other ears. Do you pledge me your eternal silence?" "I do; what is the matter?" "I have been taking hasheesh—Cannabis Indica, and I fear that I am going to die.

America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's judgment if we become accustomed to glamorizing war, excusing lies, and parading our might and dominance.

It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. -From the poem Fear

Happy ending After they had not made love she pulled the sheet up over her eyes until he was buttoning his shirt: not shyness for their bodies - those they had willingly displayed - but a frail endeavour to apologise. Later, though, drawn together by a distaste for such 'untidy ends' they agreed to meet again; whereupon they giggled, reminisced, held hands as though what they had made was love - and not that happier outcome, friends.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

She was standing at the door defenseless, dressed like a queen and yet completely vulnerable and submissive, her pride relinquished. She had exposed herself in an act of pure courage, and that made him love her even more.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

Sunt prea blazat pentru a m? îndr?gosti, ?i prea sensibil pentru a r?mâne indiferent. Pe scurt, prea slab pentru a r?mâne însurat

Es ist übrigens ganz leicht, alles kaputt zu machen, wenn man sich mit jemandem wohl fühlt. Man braucht nur zu sagen: "Ich liebe dich.

Ta c? ng? r?ng càng già ta càng c?ng r?n h?n nh?ng ngh? th? là sai: ngày nào ta c?ng ph?i lòng, sau m?i ánh m?t, qua m?i ti?ng c??i trong su?t nh? pha lê mà trái tim không thôi nhung nh?. Ch? ??n gi?n là ta kìm ch? vì quá bi?t m?i chuy?n s? d?n ??n ?âu.

le sang, le sperme et les larmes

À cet instant précis j'ai su que je donnerais n'importe quoi pour entrer dans sa vie, son cerveau, son lit, voire le reste.

Los que critican el amor son sobre todo aquellos que más lo necesitan.

Mes moqueries continues étaient ma façon de tordue de dire « Charles, je t'aime », ça y est, c'est dit, je ne le répéterai jamais, une fois par vie suffit.