Quotes tagged ‘Disorder’

“A British bank is run with precision A British home requires nothing less Tradition, discipline and rules Must be the tools Without them: disorder, catastrophe, anarchy In short, you have a ghastly mess!”

— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mr. George W. Banks, David Tomlinson, imdb.com

“Chief Elder: [beginning her commencement speech] Beginnings... From disorder and chaos, from great suffering, great pain. From confusion and envy and hatred came a solution: Communities. Serene, beautiful place where disorder became harmony. Jonas: I apologize. [no reply] I apologize? The Giver: Don…”

— Michael Mitnick, Robert B. Weide, Chief Elder, Meryl Streep, imdb.com

“They tell me I got something called Narcissistic Personality Disorder. But, uh, the truth is this lustrous hair and dimpled chin are merely chapter one. I'm a veritable cornucopia of high-octane maladies, such as outrageous intelligence syndrome. And a little obsessive successful disorder.”

— Kell Cahoon, Shawn Spencer, James Roday, imdb.com

“While autism is a developmental disorder, sometimes a devastating one, there is always within the autism a unique and sometimes strangely gifted individual. The great psychoanalyst Winicott used to feel that there was something like a tulip in every person and this was their essence and that this in…”

— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.org

“My anxiety is a mental disorder. I am not making it up. I am not pretending to be sick to get out of doing things. It is a very real, mental and physical disorder.”

— Kayla Bindus, thoughtcatalog.com

“I am here to tell you that you are more than your body. You are more than a number or a measurement. Your life means more than the number on the scale, or your GPA, or the calories you ate, or the number of Instagram likes on your most recent picture.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“[On anorexia] Everything things becomes scary and you avoid everything until there is nothing left. You starve until you are barely there anymore. Your bones and organs and still alive but your soul and heart are dead. You are existing, but not living.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“The reality of anorexia is lonely.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“Living in a world where thinness is seen as a trophy of success, it is hard for many people to see why living in the depths of an eating disorder is awful.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com