Emotional Vulnerability Quotes

“May I forever hide in the depths of your love,
melting
and spilling within you.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“I don't want to be something else that keeps you from sleeping at night.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“I squeezed my way through the crowd and saw a marvelous beauty, who could scarcely have reached her first season. But the beauty was pale and melancholy. She looked preoccupied; I even fancied that her eyes were red with recent weeping. The classic severity of every feature of her face gave a certain dignity and seriousness to her beauty. But through that sternness and dignity, through that melancholy, could be seen the look of childish innocence; something indescribably naïve, fluid, youthful, which seemed mutely begging for mercy.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

“Vulnerability is not a stagnant phenomenon based on one or two singular conditions, because life is not stagnant. Our constantly shifting life experiences are the very building blocks of our new or evolving points of potential exploitation.”
― Ehren Elliott, Questions from a Storyteller: Why People Become Vulnerable to Manipulation and Deception through Fantasy Beliefs

“We are vulnerable, to some extent, every time we open ourselves to anything. Where new stories can enter, new beliefs can
be created, and stories and beliefs shape how we perceive the valuable pieces in our lives.”
― Ehren Elliott, Questions from a Storyteller: Why People Become Vulnerable to Manipulation and Deception through Fantasy Beliefs