Marianne Moore Quotes

When are you at your most defenseless?

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

I never think that walls can protect you.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

He that's secure is not safe.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Fear attracts attack.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

The last safe place is safe no more.

If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.