Quotes About Debilitating

The recurring lovesickness of my teenage years often brought debilitating side effects, the worst of these being a compulsion to write Christian poetry. 

Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.

we're a social species. That's why connection matters. It's why shame is so painful and debilitating. It's why we're wired for belonging.

Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our

The energy-draining, time-wasting, silo-creating effect of this justification seeking is one of the most debilitating of organizational problems.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

Someone had once said to him that belief itself was a sickness, a dead end for the questing intelligence of the human mind. It seemed he'd infected himself with a debilitating dose.

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.

I got my first migraine on my first day of work in TV in 2001... it was debilitating.

It was a constant agony, consuming and debilitating as a toothache.

Reality has a deep dimension often operating below the surface of empirical experience. To think otherwise is to commit what critical realists call the epistemic fallacy, namely, to reduce what is to what we can empirically observe. That is a debilitating move.

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.

No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.

I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

I had a really, really bad case of it. Everybody hears OCD and they think, 'Okay, you like to clean or be organized.' That's really not what it is, especially not for everybody. In my case, it was me being super self-conscious, to the point where it was debilitating.

The combination of the heat and air moisture was debilitating.

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.

Ryan and Frederick (1997) showed that in a population suffering from debilitating pain, pain level per se did not detract from vitality. Instead, pain fright was negatively associated with vitality, as was attending treatment for external as opposed to internal reasons. Some of the factors that may influence one's sense of vitality and contribute to its resilience are one's feelings of personal causation, optimism, and perceptions of social support.

When people age, the main valve carrying blood out of the heart becomes brittle. As this aortic valve narrows, it can cause debilitating heart failure, and even death.

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

How to describe intermittent severe pain on the same scale as constant middle-range pain, which I found more debilitating?