Victim Role Quotes

#1. You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.

Renee Fredrickson

#2. I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To "prove" I wasn't a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm's way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.

Christina Enevoldsen

#3. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.

Stephen Richards

#4. You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

Danilo Kis

#5. A true victim does not relish the role of victim. They do not want to be perceived as victims, and they will do whatever they need to do to heal, adapt and move forward in their lives.

Tara Palmatier

#6. No one survived on the streets without a protective mask. No one survived naked. You had to have a role. You had to be "thug," "playa," "athlete," "gangsta," or "dope man." Otherwise, there was only one role left to you: "victim.

Jerry Heller

#7. Don't play the role of victim AGAIN, just to massage your bullies ego
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J. Yates

#8. You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.

Joe Girard

#9. In recent decades, Europe has retreated to the conduct of soft power. But besieged as it is on almost all frontiers by upheavals and migration, Europe, including Britain, can avoid turning into a victim of circumstance only by assuming a more active role.

Henry Kissinger

#10. Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Christopher Koch

#11. Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

John G. Miller

#12. Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.

Johanna Verweerd

#13. The role of benefactor is worse than thankless, it's the role of a victim, Doctor, a sacrificial victim, yes, they want your blood, Doctor, they want your blood on the altar steps of their outraged, outrageous egos!

Tennessee Williams

#14. The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

Merle Shain

#15. Jesus is great
is there a better role model? No. It's religion, it's the people who get in between
the bureaucracy, you know ... It's the way people abuse Jesus. Was there ever a greater victim of name dropping?

Bill Maher

#16. The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves.

Natascha Kampusch

#18. Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead.
Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. For most, not knowing how to say no is where their lives decline into a thicket of stress and unhappiness. These individuals are easy to spot, as they constantly take on the role of victim to the world's desires.

Brendon Burchard

#20. Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.

Dawn Powell

#21. There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

Catherine Marshall

#22. A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Cullen Hightower

#23. As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.

Maureen Brady

#24. As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you're suffering in paradise.

Byron Katie

#25. I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

Lucy Lawless

#26. I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

Oliver Kahn

#27. Go ahead, blame the victim! The villain is my favourite role to play.

Raziel Reid

#28. Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

T. Harv Eker

#29. The threat of punishment at home or school only served as a challenge to figure out how to circumvent the consequences when I did what I wanted to do anyway. I didn't fear the punishment, I just saw it as an inconvenience to work around.

M.E. Thomas

#30. That was years ago. I've learned my lessons well and played my role. No longer willing to be a victim, today I'm insidious.

Aleatha Romig

#31. Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking."
"That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#32. Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in sexual intercourse is the deepest imaginable humiliation, which is only worsened if the victim finds to his horror that he enjoys it.

Germaine Greer