James Hillman Quotes

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.