Quotes about Vulnerability

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

He put his mouth on her and kissed her on the cheek; he was afraid of the mouth-thoughts travel too easily from lip to lip.

The Lord is my shepherd. But if we are sheep why in heaven's name should we trust our shepherd? He's going to guard us from the wolves all right, oh yes, but only so that he can sell us later to the butcher.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.

She had so much more capacity for love than I had - I couldn't bring down that curtain round the moment, I couldn't forget and I couldn't not fear. Even in the moment of love, I was like a police officer gathering evidence of a crime that hadn't yet been committed [...]