77 Quotes About Powerlessness

You’re a divine being. Creator of your own reality experience. Don’t give away your power.

You too, Caesar?

The energy of the town threatened to suck me into it, and realized how much weaker I was than before. Everyone has trouble living. I know that. But the present me is nearly powerless in this city.

It must be easy to ponder the universe, safe in your palace, away from the petty, brutal dealings of man. Maybe you don’t remember what it is to be powerless. I do.

Je n'avais pas envie de mots. Il n'y avait pas de mots. Il n'y en avait pas parce que les mots sont le sens et que ce soir il n'y a plus aucun sens.

Bureaucrats do not take kindly to intercessions. Their one satisfaction in life is to keep us waiting in line, begging for that last signature.

God scoffs at (smiles at) those he sees denouncing the evils of which they are the cause.

Yet the illusion of meaning recurred, much as you tried to resist it: like childhood, I said, which we treat as an explanatory text rather than merely as a formative experience of powerlessness.

Lion in the cage won't eat grass