1,745 Quotes About Abuse

Favor isn't always fair. Sometimes favor goes to those who has endured the most unfavorable situations in life.

I was lost in a void of perpetual darkness. Disconnected from myself. Turned inside out. No sign of life. Eventually, the darkness was my light and the void a haven – a quiet place where I could nurse my secret and lick my wounds.

If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

Only the sufferers of injustice can realize its intensity - Iman Musa Al-Kazim

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped.

Some trees love an ax, a drunk old-timer mumbled one night at the Tap, back when she still went there, and something in what he said rang true, but when she later remembered what he'd said, she disagreed and though instead that the tree gets used to the ax, which has nothing to do with love. It settles into being chipped away at, bit by bit, blade by blade, until it doesn't feel anything anymore, and then, because nothing else can happen, what's left crumbles to dust.

Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.