Quotes About Dependency

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

How could I convey the way those short months had changed the way I felt about everything? The way he had skewed my world so totally that is made no sense without him

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours?

Es gribu teikt, ka ?sti nezinu, ko j?tu. Ka gribu vi?u, bet baidos. Es nev?los, lai mana laime b?tu atkar?ga no k?da cita, negribu b?t ??lniece tam, ko nesp?ju kontrol?t.

I want to tell him then. I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

Quiero decírselo. Quiero decirle qué no sé que es lo que siento. Le deseo pero me da miedo desearle. No quiero que mi felicidad dependa enteramente de otra persona, ser rehén de destinos que no puedo controlar.

In exchange for the male being the ultimate couch potato, the female never has to wonder where her mate is on a Saturday evening. It turns out that some males do indeed amount to little more than an appendage.

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another. [...] We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.

Domesticated animals (including humans) are more childlike, sociable, and gentle than their wild ancestors.

It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock.

Three things," I told her. "First, there's no such thing as too much coffee. Second, caffeine has nothing to do with my jitters. And third, there's no such thing as too much coffee.

He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. ~ FDR

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

You cannot keep someone else's love warm, you cannot love by proxy.

So, naturalists observe, a fleaHath smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em;And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet, in his kind,Is bit by him that comes behind.

I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader in the industry. Our customers rely heavily on us. We produce nothing. We sell nothing. We buy nothing. If we didn't exist, Kafka would have to invent us.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Nobody had a sense of direction anymore, including himself. They were too dependent on screens.

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.