John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

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

We put up these facades, of maybe strength of who we are, but inside there's this incredibly broken person.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

We're all so damned fragile.

Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.