Victim Quotes - Page 23

• The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

  Steven Erikson

  Dark, Creating, Evil

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• The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Warrior, Four Agreements, Bigs

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• There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, True Power, Evil

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.103, Penguin

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• Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

  Rick Riordan

  Simple, Thinking, Traps

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• But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Games, People, Advice

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• To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

  Simone Weil

  Faith In God, Injustice, Proof

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.144, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Sarcastic, Hope, Sarcasm

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• You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

  Chris Colfer

  World, Shows, Who You Are

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Loss, Dark

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim.

  Maureen Johnson

  Morning, Body, Nine

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.45, Penguin

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• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Black, Century, Gray

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.69, Random House

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• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Lying, Special

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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• The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.

  Robert Bly

  Warrior, Boys, Men

  Robert Bly (2004). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.149, Da Capo Press

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• We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Bye, Stronger, Lifetime

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

  Tupac Shakur

  Bully, Wanted

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• It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

  Russell Brand

  Lying, People, Drunk

  "Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery". Book by Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader, www.npr.org. August 23, 2016.

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• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

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• If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

  Ally Carter

  Want, Ifs

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• What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing.

  Kirsten Miller

  Lying, Sleep, Fighting

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• We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

  Iris Murdoch

  Judging, World, Fantasy

  Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.490, Penguin

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• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Self Pity, Contradiction

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• For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Revenge, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.233, Vintage

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• I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Passion, Tired, Circles

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Whining, Neighborhood

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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• The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Differences, People, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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