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Quotes About Vulnerability

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
~ Margaret Atwood
Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.
~ Marianne Williamson
In love, self-love is always at risk.
~ Mason Cooley
Never be afraid to tell me anything," he whispered against her hair. "No matter how ashamed you might feel. I'll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.
~ Maya Banks
Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.
~ Mia Sheridan
I promised to tell you how one falls in love.
~ Michael Ondaatje
People say that being in love is amazing. They lie. It's freaking terrifying.
~ Molly McAdams
Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
~ Myrtle Reed
Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.
~ Neil Lowe
All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you
~ Nicole Krauss
What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.
~ Nora Roberts
I've been happy alone and I've been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.
~ Nora Roberts
Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.
~ Patricia Arquette
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
~ Paul Simon
The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.
~ Paulo Coelho
The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
~ Philip Larkin
When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.
~ Richard Linklater
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
~ Robert Frost
Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I'm so afraid to love you, But more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
As soon as a man has his guard up, he will not fall in love or get attached. The only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.
~ Sherry Argov