“Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.”
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Vulnerable Quotes — page 47 of 73
“I am not faithful but I am attached.”
“We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.”
“Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.”
“I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.”
“I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.”
“I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.”
“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”
“I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.”
“instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.”
“True power is given to the vulnerable.”
“Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I’ve had family members who are bipolar, so I’ve seen it again.”
“I've been living a lie all my life.”
“Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.”
“We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.”
“I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.”
“Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.”
“It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.”
“Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.”
“I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.”