Characterological Dysfunction Quotes & Sayings

Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets? — Jonathan Safran Foer

We could open up a support group."
"I'd rather stick with hot chocolate. All the warmth I need, minus the awkward moments. Oh, and it's sweet. So thanks, but no thanks.
- Maiwenn and Pauline — Natalie Herzer

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them. — Bernie Siegel

I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me. — Navi Rawat

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. — Tanith Lee

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell

The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long ago. We've lost true history. But if we are willing to tolerate the contradictions, and if we suffer through events rather than ticking them off, we may at least get closer to understanding what happened than if we grip the handrail of a carefully polished and reassuringly heroic narrative. — Nicholson Baker

Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones. — Vikrmn

Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion. — H.G.Wells

Her only flair is in her nostrils. — Pauline Kael

Because it's not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely. — Sandor Marai