"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience."
— Jodi Picoult (Perfect Match)

"People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong."
— Mercedes Lackey (The Black Gryphon)

"The weaker you are the louder you bark.
-Tenten"
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto)

"They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces."
— Kate Atkinson (One Good Turn)

""It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76 "
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

"Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted."
— Isaiah Berlin (The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas)

"When love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest person in the world."
— Garman Wold

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
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— Michael Jordan

"The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness."
— Stuart Sutherland (Irrationality)

"Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away."
— Joyce Carol Oates (Wild Nights!: New Stories)

""And inasmuch as they erred it might be made known;
And inasmuch as they sought wisdom they might be instructed;
And inasmuch as they sinned they might be chastened, that they might repent;
And inasmuch as they were humble they might be made strong, and blessed from on high, and receive knowledge from time to time.""
— Doctrine and Covenants 1:25-28

"Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness."
— Jean De Berg (The Image/The Whip Angels)

"When they say, "You're not that weak! You're not that strong!" it's not your fault."
— Raine Maida

"I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere."
— Haruki Murakami (After Dark)

"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."
— Umberto Eco (Postscript to the Name of the Rose)

"I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize? "
— Haruki Murakami

"A sneer is the weapon of the weak."
— James Russell Lowell