325 Quotes About Masculinity

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.

There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.

if i have never seen you cry.if you do not cry.if you do not value or respect the needs of your water.you and i can not form.if you can not allow your own being to wash over you.how will mine ever make it past your skin.–– available

As a culture, we perceive men not as sacred or sensitive, but as things to be hurt, repeatedly and violently, in order to test their mettle. Manhood is a prize awarded to the most scarred.

Chivalry was more an ambition than an accomplishment, but—and this is the important thing—it was the common ambition of increasing numbers of men, and it had the effect of elevating and concretizing their civil righteousness. Religion also did this.

Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.

Suicide has overtaken car accidents, heart disease and cancer as the biggest killer of British men under the age of 45, and male rates of substance abuse, violence and imprisonment are eye-watering. And yet dysfunctional emotional regulation continues to be aligned with alpha masculinity.

Kings bring sand to the beach and build castles

First, break free; then break through. Dragons love to fly at the expanding edge of your world.