1,745 Quotes About Abuse

Surviving R Kelly is surviving any person who thinks they have super authority, or power and influence on others . Using their career, position, money, body in manipulating & taking advantage of others sexuality.

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

I would much rather ‘build up’ your faith than ‘play on’ your fears.

The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.