Quotes about Vulnerability

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

Confrontation makes me nervous.

We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.

Must, must, must — detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, Now I am rid of all that, find that the wave has tumbled me over, head over heels, scattering my possessions, leaving me to collect, to assemble, to head together, to summon my forces, rise and confront the enemy.

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way.

So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.