Weakness Quotes

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

~ Agatha Christie

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

~ John Wayne

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

~ Jodi Picoult

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down. -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76

~ Milan Kundera

Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.” “Every man?”“Yes,” he answered emphatically. ...“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked. “You.

~ Julie Garwood

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

~ Dennis Lehane

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

~ Lisa Kleypas

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

~ Kate Atkinson

And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.

~ Wayne Elise

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

~ James Russell Lowell

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

~ Shūsaku Endō

Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

~ Peter Høeg

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

~ Kahlil Gibran

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

~ Ken Kesey

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.

~ Charles Portis

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

~ Jude Morgan

What is really not fair about life is the fact that we have to pay the cost of our weaknesses which we didn't chose nor we had the option to refuse. Apart from that life is very fair.

~ Sameh Elsayed

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

~ David Morrell

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

~ Russell Simmons

Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

~ Shan Sa

Do not indulge your weaknesses!

~ Toba Beta

Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.

~ Victoria Schwab

Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Weakness is an irresistible lure.

~ Kiersten White

No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness

~ Sarah A. Denzil

Everyone has a weakness but I have two, everything you say and everything you do.

~ Unknown

Why am I so weak, why do I care so much?What is holding on, what's wrong with me..

~ Maite

Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .

~ Milan Kundera

We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic.

~ John Ortberg

The Weak Point Dealer is an ideal man fighting his inner himself who is drowned by the outer himself, desperate to deal with the weak points. The man who is wildly in love with what he wants and madly hates for what he has to wait for.

~ Bhavik Sarkhedi

As you can see, I keep my word,” I call to the rest of the crowd. “Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.

~ Marie Lu

Then he launches himself at me with a roar, and I let him take his shot. It’s weak, like he is. Like all bullies really are. That’s why they’re bullies. Because they’re insecure idiots who try to make themselves feel better.

~ Erin Watt

Weak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.

~ Ivan Turgenev

Your only chance of survival, if you are severely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances. What sadness there is in this simple observation! What an accusation against man! Love makes you weak, and the weaker of the two is oppressed, tortured, and finally killed by the other, who in his or her turn oppresses, tortures, and kills without having evil intentions, without even getting pleasure from it, with complete indifference; that's what men, normally, call love.

~ Michel Houellebecq

You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.

~ Richelle Mead

I like people with weak will and bad taste.It feels like anything is possible.

~ Kris Kidd

Be the fish that discovers the water and don't let the moment exceed her weakness

~ K.j. Kilton

If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.

~ Kiersten White