(1582 quotes found)
“I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.”
Stanley Kubrick
“The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
Chinese Proverbs
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.”
Al Pacino
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
Paul Brunton
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
Boris Pasternak
