impotence [Theme] Page 10

Nothing can be done - we made love, we love betrays us.

We who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

The art of living depends on our ability to overcome our own helplessness. It's hard because impotence often leads to fear. It negates our strength, intelligence, common sense and opens the way of weakness.

Sometimes we are powerless to fate, desires or impulses, and it is painful, often unbearable. The feeling will haunt you your whole life, sometimes forgetting and sometimes turning into an obsession.

- But against cancer or AIDS, you have nothing.
- There will always be diseases against which we are powerless.

Human history would be too stupid a thing without the spirit that made it powerless.

Frustration - property of the weak. Do not trust disappointed - it is almost always powerless.

We cut each other's wings, panting from the pain and weakness...

The most unpleasant feeling is a feeling of powerlessness.

When dealing with strong feelings, weakness kills.

After recovering from a heart attack, Ranevskaya said:
- If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.