Dysfunction Quotes

“We put the fun in dysfunction.”

— William Lashner

“We are in the era of dysfunctional relationships.”

— Steven Magee

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

— Lemn Sissay

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

— Marjorie M. Liu

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

— Robert Downey, Jr

I hate that word dysfunction.

— Jonathan Franzen

“He has a reptile dysfunction.”

— Jodi Picoult

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

— Bob Dylan

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

— Dave Ramsey

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

— Mariel Hemingway

“but a perfect home was as clear a sign of dysfunction as a slovenly one.”

— Danielle Girard

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

— George Michael

“They'd been playing house, but it wasn't a game either of them liked.”

— Melanie Golding

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

— Eli Attie

“The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

— Eckhart Tolle

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

— James Hillman

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction…

— Don Henley

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn…

— James Hillman

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've…

— Lisa Unger

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of…

— Hugh Jackman

You can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful…

— Anonymous

We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their…

— Michele Bachmann

, I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on…

— Max von Essen

“It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with…

— Colleen Truscott Fry

There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the…

— Eckhart Tolle

The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell…

— Eckhart Tolle

“If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at…

— Donna K. Childree

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world…

— Ralph Fiennes

But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the…

— Esther Perel

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

— Eckhart Tolle

I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president…

— Mitch McConnell

“Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England winters can be very cold. The curtains he'd…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Arthur Kleinman explains, “We learn how to identify and react to pain, how to label and communicate dysfunction” (Klienman, **). He explains…

— Shan

“One needn't stop dysfunction; just evince and reflect.”

— Andy Harglesis

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

— Hillary Clinton

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

— Ursula K. Le Guin