Vulnerability Quotes

356 quotes by 277 authors

I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities. — Suzanne Collins
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying — David Sheff
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and… — Janet Fitch
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not… — BrenÃ© Brown
Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in… — Gladys Taber
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… — Alain de Botton
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed… — John Bradshaw
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us. — Sharon Salzberg
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — C.E. Murphy
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the… — Oliver Sacks
Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be… — Tonya Hurley
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see… — Katherine Dunn
Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either. — Malorie Blackman
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a… — Alain de Botton
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all… — Howard Zinn
The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of… — Nora Roberts
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better — Ron Rash
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for… — Steven Pinker

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