“Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 28 of 73
“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 emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
“My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.”
“You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.”
“I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.”
“I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.”
“If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.”
“I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.”
“It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.”
“You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.”
“If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.”
“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”
“Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.”
“I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.”
“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
“I'm a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I'm a sitting duck because I can't get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They're far ahead of me. That's what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It's a big, silent monster out there. That's what it feels like.”
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
“Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.”
“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.”
“I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.”