Quotes About Impotence

Lo más importante en el proceso de un duelo es aprender a enfrentarse con la ausencia de aquello que no está, es tolerar la impotencia frente a lo que se quebró, es hacerse fuerte para soportar la conciencia de todo lo que no pudo ser; ésta es la esencia del dolor que subyace a una pérdida y más allá de cualquier comprensible y necesaria catarsis, no se puede aliviar reclamando justicia, ni se puede sanar consiguiendo condena.

Whatever power it is that I have, it's nothing compared to the power of stupidity. That was and remains my reasoning, even though I could have taken the opportunity to live an idyll here of easeful impotence.

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?' 'Yes, sir, it has.' 'Then why do you do it?' 'To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

didn't ignore the facts), considered (thought about briefly) the utter impotence of his own body and the barrenness of Sarah's dead womb. Although all human reason for hope was gone, he hoped in faith. Abraham was very positive about a very negative situation!

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.

I wish I knew. It's almost like nature is trying to show us that she's still more powerful than man. No matter how many of each other we kill in war, nature can still kill more of us. No matter how much we think we know about life, she still can make us look impotent.

Johnson saw preoccupation with principle and procedure as a sign of impotence. Such men were "troublemakers," more concerned with appearing forceful than in exercising the real strengths that led to tangible achievement.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or of impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

It's all right, she said. It's all right. That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.

A lot of men are impotent and it's very sad. How many of you are impotent? I see. Can't get your arms up either?

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

Ignorance or impotence may be pleaded for so limited a creature as man; but those imperfections have no place in our Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended all those actions of men, which we so rashly pronounce criminal. And we must therefore conclude, either that they are not criminal, or that the Deity, not man, is accountable for them.

What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

Pero hay una diferencia: Artaud luchaba cuerpo a cuerpo con su silencio. Yo no: yo lo sobrellevo dócilmente, salvo algunos accesos de cólera y de impotencia.

Human beings are weak.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

When dreams are turned away, death becomes the ultimate salvation….There are only two extremes in human madness: the instant when you become aware of your own impotence and the instant when you become aware of the vulnerability of others. It's a question of accepting one's madness…or suffering it.