Vulnerability Quotes

• The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • Future
  • Black
  • Culture

• One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Misery

• There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's a kind of thrill to that as well.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Power
  • Practice
  • Security

• The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • Vulnerability

• Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Criticism

• Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Fall
  • Vulnerability

• Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Human
  • Vulnerability
  • Bad Thing

• You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Life is
  • Vulnerability
  • Untouchable

• If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Vulnerability
  • Truthful
  • Lack

• I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Black
  • Space
  • Vulnerability

• I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Way
  • Vulnerability

• I heard this wonderful quote - "Only the brave show what they love." It's so-embarrassing to approach somebody and say you want to look at them. But without that risk taking, nothing can happen, so I have to make myself vulnerable. What I think is the unifying aspect in people that I like is that they have a sense of their own vulnerability, and I respond to that.

  

  Wolfgang Tillmans
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wonderful

• Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

  

  Kay Warren
  • Independence
  • Committed
  • Maintaining

• I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Vulnerability

• I think the one thing that never goes away is soul and emotion and vulnerability and finding your strength in our vulnerability. I think when I apply all of that to music, it somehow just ends up being classic. It's the sum of a bunch of things that never go away.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Emotion

• Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • Hollywood
  • Vulnerability

• I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Character
  • Vulnerability
  • Dull

• What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

  

  Winnie Byanyima
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Rights

• One of the problem with cyber is that it lends itself to preemptive action. Your assets in cyber-warfare are your opponents' vulnerabilities, therefore in order to quantify your assets you have to be able to ascertain how vulnerable your opponents are and that involves pre-emptive exploration of your opponents' networks. So in that sense it lends itself to some pretty nasty stuff.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Problem
  • Vulnerability
  • Exploration

• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Violence
  • Revenge

• There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Grief
  • Vulnerability
  • Satisfy

• A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Warrior
  • Vulnerability
  • Absolute

• Vulnerability is allowing people to see you exactly as you are, which is really hard, because when you’re vulnerable you can get hurt. Most people armor up with bravado or something, but those people are missing out, because without allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it’s tough to have, like, any emotional experience at all. Letting people in is really vulnerable, and most people—especially introverts—have trouble.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Experience
  • Hurt
  • Trouble

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