Quotes about Vulnerability

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep.

A predator on land is prey in the sea.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

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.