Vulnerability Quotes
356 quotes by 277 authors
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find…
— Patrick Wilson
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that…
— Naomi Wolf
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Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
— John F. Kennedy
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that…
— Don DeLillo
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
— Sigmund Freud
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Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first…
— Marianne Wiggins
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
— Paulo Coelho
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You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world,…
— Dan Millman
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I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my…
— Irvine Welsh
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If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real…
— Anne Lamott
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It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing…
— Toni Morrison
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If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're…
— Mitch Albom
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But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each…
— John Ortberg
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The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Vulnerability Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 356 Vulnerability Quotes, led by these top contributors: