Quotes about Vulnerability
When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
— Milan Kundera
Love is easily killed.
— Oscar Wilde
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
— Ricky Gervais
But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.
— Paulo Coelho
It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.
— Candace Bushnell
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
— Candace Bushnell
Yow. Guys can be so insecure.
— Candace Bushnell
And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
— Carl Sagan
Just as we have the tendency to run away from a shot or a dose of medicine, even if it's good for us, we have the tendency to run away from answers that touch painful areas in our lives.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
— Britney Spears
Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.
— Holly Hunter