Quotes About Rawness

Broken" from the band Life-house fills the room, because Chris doesn't know how personal it is to me. I'm falling apart. I'm barely breathing. I'm barely holding on to you. This song, this place with the words, and I am raw

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

The end of a relationship can be painful for anyone. But, if it's our first love and the relationship ends sooner than we would have wanted, that feeling of loss can seem unbearable. Like the passion of the beginning of the relationship, the newness and rawness of the loss of love can be very intense, and devastating. That's why we call it having a broken heart!

Unrevised, real life is just a mess.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty.

I'm tired of all this isolation. I'm tired of this triviality of life. I want real human emotion. I want to feel the natural spontaneity of life, the beautiful randomness and rawness that is life. I want to see you and I want you to see me and I want to bask in that moment of humility and intimacy and the acknowledgement of your dignity and my humanity, even if it is for a second. That'll be enough.

The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments--what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

Save your act for other people. The lies and the show – I don't want it. I want you. Fucked up and crazy. I want you.

I've never tried to be what I'm not. I am what I am: raggedy, over-the-top, heartfelt, emotional, reflective, passionate, angry and sad at times.

peau nue contre la sienne, nue aussi, mais hélas ! nue comme sont nus les os.