Vulnerable Quotes - Page 5

• I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

  Steve Southerland

  Believe, Dependent, Greatest Gifts

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Ideas, Class

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Feels

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.496, Faber & Faber

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• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  Henry Rollins

  Jealous, Pride, Degradation

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• They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

  Anne Sexton

  Flower, Innocent, My Favorite

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sports, Sex, Water

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Men, Political

  The Human Condition ch. 45 (1958)

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• Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?

  Haile Gerima

  Issues, People, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Play, Giving

  Source: mag.citizensofhumanity.com

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• I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Death, Peace, Fear

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Happiness, Real, Doe

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• Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

  Ellis Peters

  Heart, Quality, Youth

  Ellis Peters (2014). “An Excellent Mystery”, p.45, Head of Zeus

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• I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

  K. D. Lang

  Art, Thinking, Emotion

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• We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

  Han Suyin

  Our Time, Products

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• The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

  Storm Jameson

  Stuff, Youth, Young

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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• Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

  Merle Shain

  Anger, Passion, Night

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• I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

  Faye Dunaway

  Sometimes, Desperate, Terrified

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• In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

  Danny Silk

  Pain, Needs

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. I was also a fan of the 'shoe closet.' Reading felt thrilling and illicit and deeply private to me, and I felt vulnerable doing it in public.

  Karen Russell

  Reading, Shoes, Fans

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• Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Motherhood, Stronger, Stealing

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.

  Lynn Austin

  Joy, Enemy, Needs

  Lynn Austin (2013). “Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked”, p.19, Baker Books

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• I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption

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