Vicious Cycle Quotes

“At first you might wonder what you did to deserve such treatment. Nothing, probably, so that doesn't matter. What matters is that, eventually, the abuse becomes the status quo. It's no longer about the whats and whys (“what did I do?” “why are they doing this?”) but the whens and hows (“when are they going to do it?” “how are they going to get me?”). Persecution becomes inevitable, inescapable. And once you get into the victim mindset, you're fucked. The bullies don't even need to hurt you now; your poor, warped, pathetic brain is doing half the work for them.”
― Nenia Campbell, Freaky Freshman

“Birth. Study. Job. House. Car. Love. Marry. Child. Retirement. Solitude. Death.”
― Bana, 99 Days

“One aspect of DID is the PTSD suffered by some of the alters. PTSD is similar to Panic Attacks in that once turned on, the anxiety is fed into a vicious cycle.”
― David Yeung

“The incapable educational system, my mother and I were embroiled in a vicious cycle of negativity. We all suffered greatly because we were all products of an inexperienced, underdeveloped and misunderstood thought process inherited from a completely corrupt and unjust educational system. I was unloved by my peers because I’d inherited an attitude of fear, pessimism and negativity that could have simply been avoided if our system recognised that we are all products of our environment and have subsequently come from different places, perspectives and circumstances.”
― K.A. Hill, The Winners' Guide

“He unrequitedly loved Anna; Anna unrequitedly loved Marco; Marco probably unrequitedly loved some rando none of them had ever met. The world was pitiless. Nobody had any power over anyone else.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“She puts her head on his shoulder, and for a second, it's like the other good night, the night of the bonfire, the brief lifting of the yoke, freedom from the circle: Marco hurting Anna, Anna hurting Ted, Ted hurting Rachel, these endless rounds of jealousy and harm.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“I kept running until someone saw the chase and hid me inside their house.”
― Mark Baynard, 100 Years: A Journey to End a Vicious Cycle

“Attitude breaks any vicious cycle”
― Rodolfo Peon

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Freedom comes with a price while bondage takes hold without notice”
― Mark Baynard

“I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.”
― Mark Baynard, 100 Years: A Journey to End a Vicious Cycle

“Anna loves Ted, but she does not want him in a way that causes her to suffer; she does not want him desperately, despite herself. And it turns out that is how Ted has always wanted to be wanted: the way he has always wanted women. The way Anna wanted Marco, and he wanted Anna, and Rachel (or so it seems, in retrospect) wanted him.

In the absence of this painful wanting, Ted has trouble getting hard.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“And I know that there’s nothing more common in this world than revenge. But in the end, all it does is perpetuate an endless cycle of the same.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Fugitive