“It's not enough to say I'm sorry. You have to also mean it. It's the same with saying I'm single.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 44 of 73
“We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.”
“I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.”
“A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.”
“I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.”
“I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.”
“In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.”
“As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.”
“The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.”
“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.”
“Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.”
“Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.”
“I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.”
“Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.”
“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
“I must forgive without noise or fuss.”
“I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.”
“I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.”
“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”
“In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.”