Quotes About Vulnerability

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

There is nothing you can control about love.

There are moments when I would love to fall asleep with my head on somebody's shoulder, just because I was so used to that for so long.

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Don't pull your love out on me baby.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.

When you love what's deeper, your response is direct. There won't be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?