Roy H. Williams Quotes

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

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

I'm interested in the ways that we're all broken.

We put up these facades, of maybe strength of who we are, but inside there's this incredibly broken person.

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

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

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

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

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

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

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.