Jim Butcher Quotes

It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.

We all bleed the same color. It hurts when we bleed.

I believe in the power of weakness.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

just because a king is a king that does not mean he is not as human as you

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

I'm very human.

I've struggled just as much as anyone else.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

To have a body is to suffer.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.