Jenna Morasca Quotes

I can let people take advantage of me at times.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

Goodness is something people take advantage of, and if you want to remain a good person for long, you should make sure that too many people don't take advantage of you because then you turn bitter.

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

Don't be naive and allow a man to take advantage of you.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.