“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“She looked away. I thought she was looking for another cigarette. Then I saw she was crying. I could feel her crying. Shaking and crying. She wouldn’t look up. I put my arms around her.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I’m much softer than people think. I don’t present to the world an emotional face. I’m pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.”— Christopher Lee, telegraph.co.uk
“When a person can see into your soul, it’s hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable.”— Richelle Mead, amazon.com
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, facebook.com
“We choose to heal and we choose to move forward by being brave and vulnerable enough to heal.”— Desmond Tutu, vividlife.me
“I find a gentle but ferocious strength in being vulnerable. Honesty turns shame into light.”— Erin Brown, facebook.com
“We want someone that we can be at our weakest with, and not feel so. That our vulnerability isn’t taken advantage of, but taken care of.”— Dae D. Lee, wnq-writers.com
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.”— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com
“There’s something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day you’re a bit more defensive.”— Alex Turner, uncut.co.uk
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”— Ernest Hemingway, thelettersofernesthemingway.tumblr.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, goodreads.com
“I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.”— banksy, goodreads.com
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”— Criss Jami, thekillosopher.blogspot.com
“I don't want you to leave me when you see my demons. I want you to calm them down, love me when I'm vulnerable.”— D.S. Kamath, instagram.com
“You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“But letting a man help a woman leaves him vulnerable. This is the dream of all men, according to the officers' mistresses in Java.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You aren't afraid of love. You're afraid of all the junk you've yoked to love. And you've convinced yourself that withholding one tiny word...will shield you from that junk. But it won't. We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or n…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com