Crippling Quotes

77 quotes by 71 authors

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions… — Polly Toynbee
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more… — Pat Conroy
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk,… — William S. Burroughs
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my… — Irvine Welsh
When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way. — Brian K. Vaughan
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. — J R Ward
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in… — Bell Hooks
And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually… — Edward Albee
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All… — Shashi Tharoor
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even… — Jay-Z
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn
Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling… — John Steinbeck
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,… — Edward Said
The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling. — Becca Fitzpatrick

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