563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Embracing our imperfections all comes down to our willingness to be vulnerable, to show our soft underbelly instead of working so hard to hide it.

I don't know how to love too many different guys. My heart's not made for that.

Don’t think for a minute that the person next to you is not as wounded as you are. For if you can’t see their wounds, it’s likely that you have not made it safe enough for them to show them to you because you don’t feel safe enough to risk them seeing yours.

To keep faith in mortal life, then, is to remain vulnerable to a pain that no strength can finally master. Mortality is not only intrinsic to what makes life meaningful, but also makes life susceptible to lose meaning and become unbearable. The point is not to overcome this vulnerability but to recognize that it is an essential part of why our lifes matter and why we care. (49)

I genuinely admire people who can make themselves so vulnerable, the ones who don't need to work hard at chipping away their protective shields — or who haven't constructed them in the first place — like the ones I've built up so I don't have to open myself up. But being that honest, laying yourself bare like that is scary as shit.

Nothing leaves you more vulnerable to your past than the illusion that you've dealt with it.

We create ‘light’ that isn’t light enough to reveal who we are. And that kind of light is in fact the greatest kind of darkness.

One is free, and at the mercy of everything.

Vulnerability is a magnet for honesty, and honesty is the very basis of human connections.