Abuse Quotes

Stallions, " Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a deeper animosity we owe it to ourselves to ex

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

Dear World, I exist.Deal with it.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.

There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal

Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker

You are not responsible for anything that happens to you as a child but you are 100% responsible for your own healing.

Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.

Civilisations realise their moronic beliefs.But never condemn them.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

You are only as deepas the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse.

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.

There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

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

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

My father wrote: "Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.

She’s all the blood I’ve ever shed. She’s every time I’ve ever thought of death. She’s every time I’ve ever looked at happiness and thought, ‘That’s not meant for me.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

If he’s hitting you now, stop contemplating leaving him, and just leave.

Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.

Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.