Vulnerable Quotes

“My dog, Willy, died a few years ago, but one of my great memories of him is watching him play in the front yard of our house at dusk. He was a puppy then, and in the early evenings he would contract a case of the zoomies. He ran in delighted circles around us, yipping and jumping at nothing in particular, and then after a while, he'd get tired, and he'd run over to me and lie down. And then he would do something absolutely extraordinary: He would roll over onto his back, and present his soft belly. I always marveled at the courage of that, his ability to be so absolutely vulnerable to us. He offered us the place ribs don't protect, trusting that we weren't going to bite or stab him. It's hard to trust the world like that, to show it your belly. There's something deep within me, something intensely fragile, that is terrified of turning itself to the world. I’m scared to even write this down, because I worry that having confessed this fragility, you know now where to punch. I know that if I’m hit where I am earnest, I will never recover.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“If I gave you every piece of me, I know that you could drop it
Give you the chance, I know that you could take advantage once you got it
If I open up my heart to you, I know that you could lock it
Throw away the key and keep it there forever in your pocket
If I gave the opportunity to you, then would you blow it?
If I was the greatest thing that happened to you, would you know it?
If my love was like a flower, would you plant it, would you grow it?
I might give you all my body, are you strong enough to hold it?
If I show you all my demons
And we dive into the deep end
Would we crash and burn like every time before?
I would tell you all my secrets
Wrap your arms around my weakness
If the only other option's letting go”
― Hearts Can Break and Never Make a Sound

“Hating is the coward’s way of refusing to be vulnerable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“...I am vulnerable. No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.

I hate that most of all.

Even if by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“the most
gorgeous thing
on
a human being.
vulnerability.

–– want”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“I’ve chosen to open this painful chapter in my life to inspire belief in what’s possible for your life.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Cults are very good at finding you when you’re at your lowest point, when you’re your most emotionally vulnerable. And when you’re at that point it’s astounding what can crawl into your heart and start to fester there.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 4

“...just because people won’t recognize what the right and just thing is to do — that it’s not right and just to cast those stones — doesn’t mean that that’s the end of the struggle. We have to stand up, we have to step in front of those who are vulnerable, and we have to catch those stones.”
― Bryan Stevenson

“Fear tells us that we are weak, vulnerable and incomplete.”
― Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live

“your awareness opened me, but your overanalyzing closed me.”
― Billy Chapata, Chameleon Aura

“The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. And so they’re vulnerable.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“She sucked in a breath at that look, because it made her understand what it was to be a butterfly with a pin thrust through its heart, displayed in such a way so that no flaw or feature, no matter how ugly or beautiful, could ever be hidden from view.”
― Nenia Campbell, Little Deaths

“Although ‘vulnerable’ and ‘lonely’ are different words, they’re in the same language as ‘melancholy’.”
― Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman on Jaques

“If I am a better, wiser, stronger, more caring, more sensitive, more vulnerable, more loving man...it’s thanks to you.

Grateful.”
― Bernardo Moya

“I should never have asked you to come back here.'

'Just don't leave me behind,' I say, feeling immensely vulnerable. 'That's what I want, for the game I won all those years ago.'

'I promise you,' he says. 'If it is within my power, we leave together.'

I nod. 'We will find the reliquary and ruin her,' I tell him. 'And then I will never come back.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Crying is not about being weak. It is a sign of being human. Always wear your Life on your sleeve and do not fear being vulnerable. When you are yourself, when you are authentic, a lot of love, compassion, blessings and support always come your way.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“To fully love another is to lay bare the breadth of my inadequacies. But to do anything less is to never have loved. And which, we might ask, is the greater risk?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Vulnerability is beautiful and honest, they said. It's being strong, some said. I am, a walking open wound, my ego said. I am..., my soul said. I’ll keep you safe, the divine said.
”
― J.S. Wolfe, The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution

“In the long run, being powerful is not as powerful as being able to be vulnerable.”
― Elizabeth Vongsaravanh

“The place to start is with ourselves, because if we are vulnerable to judgment from others, the chances are we are even harder on ourselves. It’s easy to underestimate how much disapproval, criticism and scolding we put ourselves through.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: Change the Way You Feel, Think and Act Under Pressure

“Wherever you are, that's where I belong. I'll never belong anywhere like I belong with you”
― Poppy Wright (Emily Henry)

“Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t say anything about this to anyone other than your lawyer. (By the end of the day, I had hired three lawyers: One to deal with the criminal case and a divorce lawyer. And a third lawyer for John.) Don’t answer any questions. It’s going to be difficult, but you have to resist the urge to talk to anyone.
The irony of these words would’ve been funny if it wasn’t so devastating. Not talking to anyone was a tall order for someone who has made a living encouraging others (and myself) to be more vulnerable, connected, and present in all relationships. Someone whose life’s work, and true passion, lies in talking with others about things that matter. And now, at the very moment I needed to connect with people, I was told I couldn’t talk to anyone.
I’ve never felt so alone, so shattered, and so scared for the future.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“There are many things I have been sorry for in my life, many mistakes and misunderstandings caused by my words and actions that I find difficult to defend in retrospect. But I am proud of having asked for a hug, uncaring of whether I would be viewed as soft or incompetent. By asking, I learned an important lesson: expressing vulnerability makes us stronger.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“When you feel, you give your existence a meaning. When you let yourself be vulnerable, you speak of the ruins left behind. It saves you, years of unexpressed agony. Allow yourself to come into living....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“~it's the good and open hearted people, those with the most to give, who are the most vulnerable. Because they think everyone is honest as they are.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“But now that you’ve let a man into your life, you might be regretting it. You probably think it makes you weak, which it doesn’t, and vulnerable, which it most certainly does.”
Well, that was the opposite of comforting.
“But being vulnerable is important, because only when we’re vulnerable can we see there are people worthy of our hearts, people who crave the chance to love us and be loved in return.”
But she still had so much to prove. So far to go before she’d reach a point where she felt like a success. How could Finn love a work in progress? How could anyone?
Then again, she loved Honey and Hickory, even though the decor was a hodgepodge of decades and the coleslaw was subpar. Imperfect. Great in some areas, lacking in others. Yet she loved the restaurant just the same.
Finn wasn’t perfect either. He’d misjudged her and stormed off and cost her a chance at working with two of her favorite entrepreneurs.
But she loved him. Completely.”
― Chandra Blumberg, Stirring Up Love

“She sucked in a breath at that look, because it made her understand what it felt like to be a butterfly with a pin thrust through its heart, displayed in such a way so that no flaw or feature, no matter how ugly or beautiful, could ever be hidden from view.”
― Nenia Campbell, Little Deaths

“Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.”
― Daniel Day Lewis

“The learning process involves stretching ourselves beyond our comfort zone and becoming vulnerable to the unknown”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Never apologize when you are already kneeling with both of your feet.”
― Daniel Oluwaseun