Paralyzed Quotes

“With her knee in our neck, the goddess of the pandemics has paralyzed us and hindered many to breathe freely and consciously. Only if we discover the timelessness of the moment, we may happen to encounter the blue sky in our mind and fly high into the light of happy expectations. (“Resilience”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer

“I’m fine, considering I can’t walk anymore,” Pam replied, a sarcastic edge in her voice. “You look like your bringing news. What is it this time, I’m blind?”
― C.B. Cook, Paralyzed Dreams

“Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.”
― Tim LaHaye, Transforming Your Temperament

“Words are dead, until action brings them life.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. The fifteen-year-old boy who landed on his head while wrestling with his brother, leaving him paralyzed and barely able to swallow or speak. Travis Roy, paralyzed in the first eleven seconds of a hockey game in his freshman year at college. Harry Steifel, paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident at seventeen, completing his education and working on Wall Street at age thirty-two, but having missed so much of what life has to offer. These are the real heroes, and so are the many families and friends who have stood by them.”
― Christopher Reeve, Still Me

“I can't see how anything can ever happen to us — I mean, I feel as if, if we leave this place, we shall crumble to pieces.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“You’re always dealing with a stereotype. There’s the superhuman trope and the vulnerable trope – the benefit scrounger, someone who takes, doesn’t offer anything to society because they’re so incapable. And if you’re trying to be the superhuman, you don’t want to look as if you’re leaning on anyone, because people will think, which one are you? It’s really hard to embody both. But the gap between the tropes is where we want to live.”
― Sophie L. Morgan

“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.”
― Patrick McGrath, The Grotesque

“I wondered if there was anything [the doctor] could do to to make the pain disappear and my arms work again. I wondered if I was going to get any worse than I already was. If so, I wondered if he could fix that, too.”
― Jennifer Starzec

“The problems were too evident, they sat together eyeing them in silence. The stage now belonged to the young people, there would be happenings. Yet nothing happened; and Clement felt as if a magic spell had paralysed them all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Nothing You Encounter in Life is Too Difficult - It's There to Teach you a Lesson
Fred Cheshire, "There's Nothing I Can't Do - Fred's Story”
― Mariam Cheshire, There's Nothing I Can't Do - Fred's Story: Continuation of the Fred Cheshire biography, "Worries Won't Happen - Fred's Story"

“The day after two feet of snow paralyzed the eastern part of the United States, the sun shone brightly from clear blue skies and it was as if nothing had ever happened – except for the deep snow that still covered the ground.
Peggy Toney Horton wrote:
“This beautiful sunny afternoon reminds me of a child who misbehaved and then looked at his mother with wide eyes and declared, ‘I didn't do it!”
― Peggy Toney Horton

“Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed to using them. But, I figured that after a few hours of sitting in a wheelchair...I would switch back...in a flash.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, Determination

“You might think that if you were paralyzed, at least you couldn't feel the pain. But it isn't like that. You can't move, but you can hurt. You can hurt more than you can imagine.”
― Michele Jaffe, Rosebush

“Le cœur complètement brisé en mille morceaux, je regarde ses éclats éparpillés, gisant au sol, tel un témoin paralysé par la scène à laquelle il vient d'assister.”
― Michelle Bourque, Délivre-moi

“it was hard not to imbibe the message that the realities of disability have to stay hidden, even when the disability is the subject.”
― Sophie L. Morgan