Edie Brickell Quotes

Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.

I'm a little bit tough because I can't afford to get my heart broken.

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.' It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. I looked at him defiantly.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

I wake up in the morning, put on my face. The one that's going to get me through another day. Doesn't really matter...how I feel inside. This life is like a game sometimes. When you came around me the walls just disappeared. Nothing to surround me and keep me from my fears. I'm unprotected. See how I've opened up? You've made me trust.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.