Being Blindsided Quotes

My heart, which I thought had been dead, stopped. Of course. I had been betrayed. My ex boyfriend had reneged on his promise to love me, and this odious event had a name: betrayal. Somehow, knowing this calmed me down. And I began to contemplate betrayal. My conclusion? It is the most difficult of all woundings. Betrayal comes in many forms. It's not just about being cheated on or left for another. It's about any promise, overt or implied, that has been broken without your participation in the decision, or even knowing that a decision was on the table. It's about believing something that you later find out is untrue. It's no wonder that the first response to betrayal is likely to be denial. It's an enormous shock to find out that a solid reality is not so solid after all. It can feel like the most deviant form of attack. When betrayal is at the root of your pain, something horrible is unleashed. Different and perhaps more horrible than the pain of disappointment, grief, or anger. With other causes of suffering, you can at least pretend you have some measure of control. You can blame the other person for disappointing you, you can read books that outline and predict the course of grief, and when you're angry you can always fall back on self-righteousness. But when you're betrayed, you have been blindsided and your vulnerability is confirmed. You lose a misplaced innocence that you really can never regain. Your ability to trust is basically obliterated. And not just your trust ~ Susan Piver

I now think that was distanced me from Tricia and from the Rape Crisis Center was their use of generalities. I did not want to be one of a group or compared with others. It somehow blindsided my sense that I was going to survive. Tricia prepared me for failure by saying that it would be okay if I failed. She did this by showing me that the odds out there were against me. But what she told me, I didn't want to hear. In the face of dismal statistics regarding arrest, prosecution, and even full recovery for the victim, I saw no choice but to ignore the statistics. I needed what gave me hope, like being assigned a female assistant district attorney, not the news that the number of rape prosecutions in Syracuse for that calendar year had been nil. ~ Alice Sebold

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it. ~ Joel C. Rosenberg

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more. ~ S.D. Lawendowski

No one is perfect. We all have weaknesses and limitations. Some can't be fixed. But, at least, a leader shouldn't find herself blindsided... ~ Assegid Habtewold

Jeffrey felt too blindsided ~ Karin Slaughter

Cancer may have blindsided you, but it didn't blindside God.~ Strength Renewed ~ Shirley Corder

As with evil, you never know when you'll be blindsided by kindness. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

Sometimes, we need a little bit of fantasy to help soften the edges of our reality." ~Nathan Nelson, Blindsided (Authors Chris Almeida & Cecilia Aubrey) ~ Chris Almeida

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end. ~ John Krasinski

Are you saying ... you can make people normal again?" I breathe out, the idea too tantalizing for my own good.
Allie nods. "That's the goal. ~ Natalie Whipple

I love you" he whispered against her lips. "I want you. I didn't see you coming. You blindsided me, and I wouldn't change a thing. ~ Larissa Ione

It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided
a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming. ~ James Patterson

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then ... I got blindsided. ~ Ali Larter

I have seen animals shot, and I have seen people who have been blindsided by greief. We always know what has hit us. We don't always know that it will kill us. ~ Helen Humphreys

I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming? ~ Emily Giffin

And then you came into my life, and you just blindsided me. I am so fucking wrapped up in you I can't see straight, and you tell me I'm a caveman for wanting to protect you and that our relationship is bullshit. ~ Kristen Proby

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all.
His passion had been artificial.
His pursuit of me had been choreographed. ~ Charlaine Harris

You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward. ~ Priscilla Cummings

Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness. ~ Heather Topham Wood

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous. ~ Anna Quindlen

Have you ever been so blindsided by a kiss you had to hold on for dear life to avoid toppling over like a sapling in a fierce storm? Yeah, me either. This was a first. It was no ordinary kiss. This felt like a revelation. Like a thunderclap accompanied by the soulful voices of a Greek chorus. ~ Lane Hayes

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it. ~ Joel C. Rosenberg

Then the one which is not, if it is to maintain itself, must have the being of not-being as the bond of not-being, just as being must have as a bond the not-being of not-being in order to perfect its own being; for the truest assertion of the being of being and of the not-being of not-being is when being partakes of the being of being, and not of the being of not- being
that is, the perfection of being; and when not-being does not partake of the not-being of not-being but of the being of not-being
that is the perfection of not-being. ~ Plato

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided. ~ Criss Jami

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns. ~ Nathan Wolfe

I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on terraces and stared for afternoons at mediocre views. I was feeling overjoyed for happy couples. I would see or hear about people, usually people I hardly knew or didn't even like, getting together, finding each other after so much groping, and I would feel bliss. I was blindsided by familiar things. ~ Dave Eggers

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Somehow she'd ended up in bed with the man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. The kind of man fathers go after with a shotgun, their sobbing daughters trailing behind them in a wedding dress. She should have stayed away, because now that she knew what all the fuss was about, she would never be satisfied with anything less. He'd blindsided her, ruined her, and addicted her in one single evening. ~ Tessa Bailey

The last five years had been a series of carefully orchestrated events. Every move, every strategy had been poured over in painstaking detail before it was set into motion.
Pieces on a chess board.
A collision of fate and circumstance. I'd planned for every hitch. Every contingency. Except the one that blindsided me like a vat of acid to the face.
I fell in love with her. ~ A. Zavarelli

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest. ~ Albert Einstein

Dementia isn't the only place that memories are found to be flawed - people find out they can't rely on their memories every day. People blindsided in relationships. People who find out their truth is a lie. People pulled from trauma. People awakened, as in Anna and Eve. I wondered: If you can't use memories to steer your life, what can you use? I didn't know. It was why I had to write this book. ~ Sally Hepworth

At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world. ~ Will Oldham

There is a danger that we can confuse being busy with being entertained and being relaxed with being bored. ~ David Miller

Being yourself is more important than being different. ~ Udai Yadla

Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Being holy ... does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human. ~ William Stringfellow

If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten. ~ Holly Smale

It's hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything. For me, I'd become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important ... I mean, we were having complications. I didn't give her an ultimatum, but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn't even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided. ~ Kevin Federline

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being. ~ Martin Heidegger

And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing. ~ Wes Anderson

Like a wind, like a storm, like a fire, like an earthquake, like a mud slide, like a deluge, like a tree falling, a torrent roaring, an ice floe breaking, like a tidal wave, like a shipwreak, like an explosion, like a lid blown off, like a consuming fire, like spreading blight, like a sky darkening, a bridge collapsing, a hole opening. Like a volcano erupting.

Surely more than just the actions of people: choosing, yielding, braving, lying, understanding, being right, being deceived, being consistent, being visionary, being reckless, being cruel, being mistaken, being original, being afraid . . . ~ Susan Sontag

Either I protect my friends and lie low until the fight for Radiasure is over, or I put everyone in harm's way and make sure that horrible drug never gets made again. Maybe if I was only putting myself at risk, I could be okay with it. But I can't make this decision for my friends and family. This is too much for one invisible girl to handle. "What do I do, Mom?"
She puts her hands on my shoulders. "Sit down. I'll get the Pop Tarts. ~ Natalie Whipple

Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found. ~ Paul Tremblay

I know that trolls are fundamentally sad people; I know that I've already defeated them in every substantive arena - by being smart, by being happy, by being successful, by being listened to, by being loved. ~ Lindy West

Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~ Robert Breault

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything ... away. ~ Dave Matthes

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different. ~ Marilyn Manson

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing ... having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity. ~ Russell Brand

I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful. ~ SARK

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave. ~ Tami Hoag

Being early meant being on time. Being on time meant being late. But being late was unacceptable. ~ L.C. Perry

Not Giving A Fuck Does Not Mean Being Indifferent; It Means Being Comfortable With Being Different ~ Anonymous

Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided. ~ Dick Costolo

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable. ~ Leontyne Price

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch. ~ Billy Porter

I may not be the skinniest, smartest, prettiest,or happiest. But I am myself. Being myself, is being perfect. Just as everyone else being themselves is being perfect. ~ Anna Glazebrook

Every object in the world, loved for its own sake, has a right to its own nothingness. Every being pours out being, a little of its being, the shadow of its being, into its own non-being. ~ Gaston Bachelard

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? ~ Christine Feehan

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it. ~ Toni Morrison

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, 'Prayer happened, and I was there" more than "I prayed today". All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being prayed through
and you are no longer in the drivers seat. ~ John Predmore

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well. ~ Marlee Matlin

Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity. ~ Tim Field

He's horrible."
"But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot. ~ Leigh Bardugo

If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted. ~ Warren Farrell

But I think sometimes happiness just meant living. Being present. Being alive. Being surrounded by those you loved. ~ Paige Weaver

HOME, which is the last floor for everyone. ~ Sushil Singh

Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing. ~ Lyndsay Faye

At the very least he should have to suffer somehow, right? I mean, months of being sick, being hormonal, being fat, being so desperately horny and then wanting to chop off Brandt's hand or his dick if either so much as touched me again. ~ Lorelei James

Because being the right person isn't about being perfect; it's about being able to handle whatever life throws at you. I ~ Mike Massimino

You can't expect other people to fix your problems if you don't at least try to fix them yourself first. [...] The solving part should always start with you.
This is hard for a lot of people, but not because they are lazy, or they want to make excuses, or they're selfish. No, i think it's because too many people aren't selfish enough. They don't put themselves first, and as result, when things get bad in their lives, they have no idea what to do because it feels like it's happening to somebody else. Or worse, they get blindsided by the problems because they never saw them coming. ~ Glozell Green

It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate. ~ Karen L. Syed

I tried being honest once, and you stopped being my friend ~ Piyush Kaviraj

Being creative is not being afraid of being lost. ~ Natasha Tsakos

Being is the great explainer. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics. ~ Kent Beck

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people. ~ Miranda Lambert

We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. ~ Julian Barnes

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being ... my essence ... is a part of all Being, all Essence. ~ Nancy J. Napier

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human. ~ Jeanette Winterson

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins. ~ Billy Corgan

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful. ~ Andrej Pejic

Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp, we lose. Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger. ~ Lao-Tzu

Being yourself is an old myth,
being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick ~ Srishti

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. ~ Thomas Merton

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. ~ Eve Ensler

I love not being me, not being Elizabeth Taylor, but being Richard Burton's wife. ~ Elizabeth Tayor

Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it? ~ Paul McCrane

The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Being married is amazing. Being married is incredibly difficult. Being married can seem impossibly hard. Being married is incredibly beautiful. Yes, marriage is a fragile blend of all of this and more. ~ Lysa TerKeurst

Being around people is exhausting. Being around Beau is like a really good version of being alone, as easy but more fun. ~ Emily Henry

If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human , Make a Friendship With New Born Child . ~ Sushil Singh

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. ~ Aisha Tyler

Being funny is not the same as being happy. ~ Dana Gould

My biggest fear isn't being a failure as an author but being a failure at being me. ~ Christina Noll

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. ~ Sharon Anthony Bower