Vulnerable Quotes

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

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.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

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.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

True power is given to the vulnerable.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

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.

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

In regards to my artistry, I've learned the importance of being vulnerable.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.

Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.

If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That is a reality that we're still vulnerable to.

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them.

Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.

Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.