Paralyzing Quotes

67 Paralyzing quotes by 61 unique authors

The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be… — Susan L. Taylor
I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist. — Julie Bowen
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going… — Hari Kunzru
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from… — Gelsey Kirkland
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted… — John Herschel
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain… — Katherine Dunn
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its… — Emma Goldman
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move… — Salma Hayek
People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy… — Jeffrey Kluger
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. — Susan Orlean
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me… — Jane Pauley
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock. — Peter S. Beagle
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and… — R A Salvatore
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And… — Cornel West
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking… — Jim Cymbala
But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too… — J D Salinger
Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring… — David Gemmell
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I… — Toni Morrison
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you — Jodi Picoult
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace

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