Quotes about Vulnerability

They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

She would die like some bird in a frost gripping her perch.

She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, Let me come with you, and he laughed. He meant yes or no - either perhaps. But it was not his meaning - it was the odd chuckle he gave, as if he had said, Throw yourself over the cliff if you like, I don't care. He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. It scorched her...

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.