1,745 Quotes About Abuse

You pushed me down to the depths of my sorrow until I thought I wouldn’t see the light of day again. You expected me to drown, didn’t you? To be left there for an eternity, waiting for your hand to pull me out? What you didn’t stop to realize is that I live in the shadows, thrive even. When I pull myself from the darkness, I’ll be stronger for it and you’ll regret leaving me for dead.

USE OF VIOLENCE IS NEVER JUSTIFIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. IF YOU DOUBT THIS, ASK ANY WOMAN

The secret to healing is when you learn that had the power all along. The brainwashing fades and the fears retreat as you rebuild and create the happiest you. Be strong and fight for the future of drinking lemonade in peace.

Abuse is not only physically. You can abuse someone emotionally and verbally. There is no abuse that is big or small, most important or less important, most serious or less serious, because every abuse is wrong and must stop.

The fanatic is always in a hurry to fall on your neck to save you, because he loves you. He loves you unconditionally. But, conversely, he might grab you and strangle you if he discovers that you are beyond redemption. Lost. And if that is the case, he is obliged to hate you and rid the world of you.

The man that abused you was hardly kind but he was familiar.Dark or dim, you could find him in a crowded room. And he walks freely. Has friends, a job, even a new lover. But there is this cage in his mind.A trap that follows him around. He is his own enemy.

31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and must be care for if it is to serve us for a lifetime. Too often, the abuse it takes during early years (from drugs, improper nutrition, sporting injuries, etc.) becomes painful handicaps during later years.

It feels like a sort of self betrayalYour abuser makes you laugh in public; yet treats you like a wet napkin in private.To them you are only useful until your are disposable again.So you join in the laughter.Silence the ten angry women inside of you.Hoping that maybe, next time it is youand the abuser alone things could be a little bit different.But them or things; they never change.And you; you always stay.You always hope.You always laugh.It feels like a sort of self betrayal

I'm a buried kind of beautiful.Bring a shovel and a shooting starI may be a night's work.