Quotes About Vulnerability

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.

You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.

Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

When you fall in love, you become weak.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.