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Quotes About Weakness

how many like Antoine were roaming the world, weak, afraid, without comrades or the consolation of love, clinging to existence as he did?
~ Anne Rice
Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.
~ Anne Rice
The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
~ Anne Rice
I can see that you don't know your own strength in this body any more than you did in the other." "Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.' 
~ Anne Rice
To be weak is a dangerous thing.
~ Anne Rice
I was weak from the heat of my own miserable thoughts.
~ Anne Rice
Bent over like a hunchback in my weakness, I carried her out and into the gondola, each stop achingly painful, my movements slow and unsure.
~ Anne Rice
He vivido muchas mentiras porque no soporto la debilidad que engendra la ira y no puedo aceptar la irracionalidad del amor.
~ Anne Rice
There's my downfall, son. I mean with anyone, any one of these lady friends, I just can't resist a person I make happy.
~ Anne Tyler
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere.
~ Annie Dillard
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on.
~ Scott Westerfeld
What do you think of God," I asked, "for testing the loyalty of Job?" "I think it is wrong for the strong to test the weak, though it is natural for the weak to test the strong.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
When those in power use shame to bully the weak into compliance, they are stealing from us. They tell us that they will expose our secrets (not good enough, not hardworking enough, not from the right family, made a huge mistake once) and will use the truth to exile us from our tribe. This shame, the shame that lives deep within each of us, is used as a threat. And when those in power use it, they take away part of our humanity.
~ Seth Godin
In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.
~ Sh?saku End?
Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.
~ Sh?saku End?
What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.
~ Sharon Creech
Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Same thing, says Levon. People mistake your kindness for weakness.
~ Shawn Goodman
Next card: 'The right answer is to walk away, but I ain't weak. I've seen what happens to weak people.
~ Shawn Goodman
Dejarla marchar es solo una señal de que se es demasiado débil para quedarse, para luchar
~ Shayla Black
She doesn't have an answer and when I step closer, slowly bringing her body against me and enfolding her in my arms, she crumples onto me, giving me her weakness. I give her back my strength. I don't know exactly what demons haunt her, but I'm beginning to suspect they're darker than anyone's imagined. I'm in too deep now to get out.
~ Shayla Black
It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within." – Nick "Guard your back, Nick. It's the one you don't see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It's when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill." – Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most of all, he wants Sin to suffer for helping to lock him in there. (Zakar) Oh, this just gives you the warm and fuzzies, doesn't it? (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For the first time in his life, he truly understood love. It wasn't just an intangible emotion, it was when his own happiness was found by making her happy. It wasn't something found in a grandiose gesture. I was found in the simplest form. A single smile that made a cold-blooded assassin weak in the knees.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon