“An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 32 of 73
“With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.”
“Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.”
“I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.”
“When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.”
“I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?”
“Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.”
“According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.”
“I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.”
“Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.”
“Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.”
“Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.”
“I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.”
“I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.”
“Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.”
“I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.”
“I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.”
“I have, throughout my private war, been a she, a you,a Donna, a me, and finally, an I....If you sense distance,you're not mistaken; it's real. Welcome to my world.”
“Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.”
“For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.”