Jason Isbell Quotes

I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

Romance means making yourself vulnerable.

We shouldn't be scared of love.

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

When love happens I won't shy away from sharing.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

would you dare to love me?

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.