Jeff Bridges Quotes

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

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

I have a heart and am extremely sensitive to what people say about me, both in the press and otherwise.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints and brushes and my big empty bed every night. "You weren't a good friend," I said instead.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

To know the pain of too much tenderness