Charlize Theron Quotes

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.

I need you to love me, I don't like me, either, if that helps.

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.