Rawness Quotes

“I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.”
― Katy Evans, Real

“Sometimes you want to stay with someone, not only because it's magic and it's promising and it feels like home; but sometimes you find someone and you want to stay with him (or her)—because you're the same kind of animal.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Anybody who doesn’t at least have some rough edges is being unreal – they’re bullshitting themselves and they’re bullshitting you too.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“It is in the utter exhaustion born of my battle with fear and trauma that all pretense and pretending is methodically stripped away. And although that process seems callously brutal, its intent is to leave me facing the rank ugliness of my weakness without the debilitating filter of denial or other such maladies. And it is in this place of excruciating rawness that I now have sufficient pain and ample frustration to compel me to change that which I’ve spent a lifetime cultivating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wanted to tell her that she was right in saying we weren't the first to suffer, but sometimes it felt like we were the only people out there with losses so raw and gaping, and that we could both use a little understanding. I didn't say any of this.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

“Be brave to express your raw emotions.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Express yourself in the manner that is most comfortable to you.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Life has a very unique way of
creating art. Art is life; raw and
unique. Each moment different
from the last and the next never a
repeat of any from the past.”
― Carolyn Elizabeth Moss

“Urban and untamed, Mexico City possesses a raw vitality; it is a city where the poetic is found in the most unexpected places.”
― Aleph Molinari, Mexico City - Assouline

“When you go under, go honest. Eyes open. Palms bare.”
― Mira Hadlow, Nearly: Poems