Dysfunction Quotes

“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“My problems aren't invalid. Not to me. Just because they aren't life altering, life-threatening, doesn't mean they don't make me feel bad. I wake up with them every morning, carry them around all day like a lead backpack, and I fall asleep with them at night. They're real, and they're mine. I know I'm lucky. I know that. But it doesn't change how I feel.”
― Rachel Harrison, The Return

“The home is not always ruined by outsiders; sometimes those within the family ruin it even more severely.”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“When a business is experiencing dysfunction, it often times has a lot to do with internal processes and internal systems. And when we put in place new internal processes and new internal systems based on clear objectives and a clear value-add strategy, the business transitions from dysfunction to effectiveness.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“To enable is to kill.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“COVID-19 is dividing the population into those with robust immune systems and those that have immune dysfunction.”
― Steven Magee

“The family coil so twisted, tight and loose
anyone trying to leave
has to strafe the field
burn the premises down”
― Adrienne Rich, Your Native Land, Your Life

“The patriarchy distorted the image of what a leader and a follower should look like, increasing egomania and dismissing the Divine Feminine. Usurpers have been tyrannizing the world ever since in disguise of leadership. You are a byproduct of this dysfunction.”
― Silver Vixxxen, Miss. A and Johnny's European Escapade LONDON: Femme Fatale Rescue Diaries

“The path to healing is rarely linear, but it is always worth the trip.”
― Gina Birkemeier, Generations Deep

“We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe are true: our parents' relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

“Ask God to give you the wisdom and knowledge for your healing, so your children do not inherit the dysfunction you inherited. It can stop with you!”
― Brenda Diann Johnson

“Everything is functioning; only man himself is not any longer.”
― Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

“Family dysfunction in conjunction with access to guns is concerning!”
― Steven Magee

“Dysfunction looks like the inability to maintain a healthy and stable relationship where one party can come and go as they please.”
― Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali

“Viagra: A sickened man’s best friend.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“What amounts to a plague of mental illness is now addressed as ‘normal’ rather than as an indication that there is something terrifyingly wrong with our culture. The fact that we no longer understand mental illness as a message – that is, as a nondeclarative communication of an imbalance that requires rectification – not only demonstrates the degree of our emotional illiteracy, but our failure to understand the principle of balance as the axis of all existence.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“L-arginine dysfunction is being seen in COVID patients and is associated with immune and vascular dysfunction.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“almost all parents of dysfunctional adult children have to some extent become enablers.”
― Allison Bottke, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“Returning to LA feels like coming home to a dysfunctional family: they drive you crazy, but deep down, you know you can't live without them.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“As the days began to feel like they were all bleeding into one another, the lines separating them becoming but a blurred gradient resembling lines not at all, with the world continuing to spin regardless of mortal toil, the tectonic plates shifting beneath our feet, and people growing everywhere around, for him, at least one thing remained constant: the aromatic scent of coffee tinging the air, kissing his nostrils. Some say that no true satisfaction could be found in instant gratification. Danny begged to differ as he moved to pour his first cup. Coffee, our way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
Sipping the hot bean water, he felt ready~”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“After all, who is ever threatened by a Librarian?
(Except for that one librarian who hunted a seven-year old Danny across state and provincial borders, endlessly, tirelessly over the span of three years to try murder him for accidentally moving away, with the library’s copy of “The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream” book. But that’s a story for another time. Where were we?)”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“You joke, but Lovecraft really was deathly afraid of all sea life,” Rudy was raving.
“Among other things, like music and black people,” Danny conceded.
Yu shivered, “Well they are evil.”
Ashleigh finally decided to jump on the conversation-wagon, “Octopus or Africans?”
“Like that, right there,” Rudy said as though whatever point he was trying to make had been proved. “We’re always applying moral attributes to actions and objects. We like to compartmentalize. We are a nation divided in so many ways. Politically, economically, geographically.”
“This coming from a guy who jerked off to an Eisenhower biography?” Yu said, almost as a non-sequitur if it weren’t true.
“I wasn’t reading it; it had just fallen open!”
Yu karate chopped him.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“Okay,” Danny stood afterwards, as though about to make a public speech. “We are really making strides today, and I’m proud of us. I would very much like to carry this momentum forth with us as we forge a path through the remainder of the day. So, without further ado, I say, um… let’s go!”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“I am content,” Rudy often told Danny.
“Is that all?” Danny would ask.
“What else is there?”
Danny was always conflicted between agreeing, and being contrary.
“We spend countless hours simply filling our days to the brim. Work, relationships, hobbies. Anything to distract us. It has to be about the excesses—about finding our obsessions to live and die by,” Danny said, eyebrow raised.
“Are you asking or simply saying?” Rudy had replied, in that manner of his that made you feel as though you were intruding, as though he wished he were somewhere else with his nose-deep in a book. Yet he wasn’t.
“I guess both,” Danny confessed.
“You’re asking ‘What is life?’”
“Yes.”
“That’s like asking ‘What is a carrot?’ It’s a carrot!” here Rudy held up one of the orange veggies, pulling it seemingly from thin air.
“And, by that logic, then,” Danny said, snatching it from Rudy’s hand. “You’re telling me, that life is a carrot?”
“Now you got it!” Rudy beamed, summoning another carrot.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“A butterfly flitted by the window, lackadaisically and languidly gliding, unaware of its beauty. Following the insect with his eyes, Danny felt a moment of peace, watching the sunlight reflecting off its purple wings, luminescent with every flap. The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to sharpen.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“Then, in a blink, his ghost of memory was gone, leaving behind only the uncomfortable feeling of having been someone other than himself for a sliced instant of his life. He felt as if he were stuck between two futures, and whatever he did next would become the decision to live in one of them.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“As seemed to be the theme of his days recently, Danny was questioning his reality, questioning his dreams, questioning his mind, questioning what was real, what was imagined, and then questioning why.
“It’s as real as you want it to be, Danny,” barked that voice again that definitely wasn’t his.
He was feeling displaced, like an outsider, as though he were simply doing a pale impersonation of himself. And not even a good impersonation either, with steps too long, breaths too quick, smile too wide, blinks too slow. Get a hold of yourself, idiot.
So he searched the room, searched his world, interrogating the shadows, prodding the corners, acknowledging the spaces, seeking for something to ground himself.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“Danny left the store, confident that he may have found a way to tilt this day a little more straighter standing, into something that didn’t so much resemble Pisa’s monument. Tracks of fate had begun to run a little too perpendicular with him today, rather than the parallel direction they usually run. He was realizing that parallel wasn’t so bad, no, in fact, he kind of missed it. Mostly, though, he just wanted some coffee.
With each step, he felt as though a stony weight lifted off his chest. It had been there all morning, that heaviness, like an invisible albatross, a cartoon cinder block holding him down. He hadn’t realized the true size of it until, all at once, it dropped away, disappearing into the day without even a sound. Just a breath. His chest expanded as he took in as much air as he could hold, feeling good. Decisions were always cathartic, no matter their size.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“Being nervous. Having anxiety. Stuttering. Autism. When you have any of those, at some point, you're forced to spend most of your time alone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough