Quotes About Paralysis

I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to write. Let your writing flow early. You can reach for a tool later. •

Há também as dores da alma que nenhuma cirurgia consegue curar. O medo, por exemplo, não pode ser amputado. Pena. Porque o medo paralisa a vida. Dominada pelo medo, a vida se encolhe, perde a capacidade de lutar, entrega-se à morte.

We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

A great fear came over me, and my body went entirely cold, and I stood as if paralyzed with fear; for I knew that the horse was no earthly horse, but the pale horse that will be sent at the Day of Reckoning, and the rider of it is Death; and it was Death himself who stood behind me, with his arms wrapped around me as tight as iron bands, and his lipless mouth kissing my neck as if in love. But as well as the horror, I also felt a strange longing.

So peaceful, the streets; so tranquil, so orderly; yet underneath the deceptively placid surfaces, a tremor, like that near a high-voltage power line. We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

People froze you in place

I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you.

Had he any choice? Can one decide whether to love or not? Yes, probably. One could walk away from life and choose half a life, paralysis of the soul.

It was the unknown that paralyzed the will to fight.

The truth was that lately, she had not had quite enough happening in her life. She and her husband had moved this past fall to a golfing community outside of Tucson. (Peter was passionate about golf. Willa didn't even know how to play.) She had had to leave behind an ESL teaching job that she loved, and she was hoping to find another one, but she hadn't exactly looked into that yet. She seemed to be sort of paralyzed

in every organization everyone rises to the level at which they become paralyzed with fear.

If you worry about every 'what if' that might befall you, your fears will paralyze you.

Life too near paralyses art.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

My own voice chokes in my throat. I am still in a dream. Not a dream, a nightmare. A nightmare where you scream but can't make a sound. A nightmare where you think you're awake but you're unable to open your eyes or move a muscle. Where you're completely paralyzed.

a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really survival response...

By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.