Quotes About Paralysis

Another risk is that if the wrong kind of immune response is elicited, the body might attack itself in what is known as an autoimmune reaction. This happened with the flu vaccine in 1976, when many patients developed a kind of paralysis (from which most people recovered) known as Guillain-Barré syndrome.

This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference.

Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

had shown that patients who had been paralyzed for twenty years were capable of making late recoveries with brain-stimulating exercises.

Naeser, a research professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, had done studies using lasers for stroke and paralysis and was one of several pioneers using "laser acupuncture" by placing light on acupuncture points.

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the fight when you still have strength for it is the most terrible form of suicide. It's almost unbearable to watch it happening in others. Unjustified hope - salvation for the weak in spirit and intellect - irritates me. But the loss of hope is the paralysis, even the death, of the soul. Sveta, let us hope, while we still have strength to hope.

There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Patients who suffer from sexual addictions enter treatment paralyzed by shame and humiliation. They describe themselves as "evil" and "defective." They desperately want to be liberated from the crush of their destructive behavior, but can't get out from under it's demoralizing weight

One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis—the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. Because of this, they lack the healthy aggression that they need to carry out their lives effectively.

wild animal would following a frightful encounter with a predator. What ethologists call tonic immobility—the paralysis and physical/emotional shutdown that characterize the universal experience of helplessness in the face of mortal danger—comes to dominate the person's life and functioning.

Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.