Emotional Invulnerability Quotes

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I pretended to be super-cool and not be bothered by things and play off any kind of heartache when I was younger, for sure.

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

I'm emotionally untouchable.