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Vulnerability28 quotes
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. — Louise Erdrich · 2005We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean? — John le Carre · 1963The inward gates of a bird are always open.
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song,
But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful. — Hugh MacDiarmid · 1934I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts? — Rebecca Wells · 1996If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound. — Boethius · 523All 28 quotes →Love4 quotes
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. — Iris Murdoch · 1959Crying3 quotes
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1955Are all men in disguise except those crying? — Dannie Abse · 1986I remember after my grandfather's death, seeing Dad in the hall with tears streaming down his face. I don't think I had ever seen him cry before. I'm glad I did see him. It helped me know that it was okay for men to cry. Many years later, when my father himself died, I cried; and way down deep I knew he would have said it was alright. — Fred Rogers · 2003Fear2 quotes
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. — Arundhati Roy · 1997Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart? — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1923Gentleness2 quotes
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens · 1865Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — W.B. Yeats · 1899Intimacy2 quotes
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Masculinity2 quotes
Are all men in disguise except those crying? — Dannie Abse · 1986I remember after my grandfather's death, seeing Dad in the hall with tears streaming down his face. I don't think I had ever seen him cry before. I'm glad I did see him. It helped me know that it was okay for men to cry. Many years later, when my father himself died, I cried; and way down deep I knew he would have said it was alright. — Fred Rogers · 2003Relationships2 quotes
You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997Make sure to allow people to take care of you. — Mickalene Thomas · 2014Taking risks2 quotes
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. — Louise Erdrich · 2005You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997Authenticity1 quote
Are all men in disguise except those crying? — Dannie Abse · 1986Broken heart1 quote
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Commitment1 quote
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861Connecting with others1 quote
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013Courage1 quote
You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997Dangers of love1 quote
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Defense mechanisms1 quote
He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Empathy1 quote
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. — Desmond Tutu · 2004Fear of intimacy1 quote
He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Inner life1 quote
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. — A.A. Milne · 1928Introspection1 quote
Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart? — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1923Nakedness1 quote
I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me! — Joe (Some Like it Hot) · 1959Patience1 quote
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens · 1865Personal growth1 quote
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. — Desmond Tutu · 2004Tears1 quote
I remember after my grandfather's death, seeing Dad in the hall with tears streaming down his face. I don't think I had ever seen him cry before. I'm glad I did see him. It helped me know that it was okay for men to cry. Many years later, when my father himself died, I cried; and way down deep I knew he would have said it was alright. — Fred Rogers · 2003Toughness1 quote
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Trust1 quote
Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go. — Juan · 2016Trusting others1 quote
Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go. — Juan · 2016Weakness1 quote
You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day. — Cherry Valance · 1948Women1 quote
She talks just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl. — Bob Dylan · 1966