#weak

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#weakness

Pain is weakness leaving the body ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#pain #phoebe #weakness

Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice." He laughs weakly. "Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#tris-prior #weakness

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#weakness

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#the-raven #weakness

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sign-of-weakness #arrogance

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#brandon #mull #prophecy #strength #weakness

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#men #weakness #men