Alain de Botton Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

  Alain de Botton

  Real, Weakness, May

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.134, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety

  "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

• Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Elude Us, Self

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

• Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

  Alain de Botton

  Men, Dust, Sublime

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.89, Penguin UK

• Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

  Alain de Botton

  Sadness, Feelings, Weakness

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