Quotes about Vulnerability

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.

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.