Quotes About Vulnerability

We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.

I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

I've slept with men that are unavailable, I've fallen in love with people I don't know.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.

In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Strange what love taught you about your faults.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

The possibility of pain is where love stems from