Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I feel extremely vulnerable.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

I won't let you close enough to hurt me.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Enemies strike at weak points.