A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. — Mary Karr
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud
I don't think anyone has a normal family. — Edward Furlong
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. — Ashley Montagu
In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member. — African Proverbs
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. — Naomi Judd
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. — Iyanla Vanzant
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. — Evan Esar
It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect. — E. L. James
It is hard to cure madness that originates in the family. — African Proverbs
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. — Matt Groening
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R. D. Laing
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Short Dysfunctional Family Quotes
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. — Wes Borland
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. — Valerie Solanas
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. — Valerie Solanis
When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates. — Billy Graham
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. — Andre Rieu
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. — Sam Levenson
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy
I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me. — Michelle Pfeiffer
Dysfunctional Family Image Quotes
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
Dysfunctional Relationship Quotes
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness. — Kristin Chenoweth
Life is short. Spend it with people who make you laugh and feel loved.
There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us. — Richard Bentall
Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship. — John Bush
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood. — Peter Thiel
Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality. — Gary Chapman
Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again. — Martha Beck
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think. — Peter R. Orszag
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening. — Sophie Hannah
Dysfunction Quotes
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look — T. D. Jakes
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. — Noam Chomsky
I really don't like that family analogy too much. Families have a lot of dysfunction and families often don't have a goal. The point of a team is that there's a goal we're working together to do this thing and with families, that's not really their function. — Kyle Roof
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' — Jeff Foxworthy
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. — Queen Elizabeth II
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. — Guy Browning
The best thing in life are free.
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth. — Lemn Sissay
Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place. — Jacque Fresco
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves. — Jay Roach
When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them. — Emo Philips
Family Dynamics Quotes
When a father praises his son, he flatters himself. — American Proverbs
Some families are like potatoes — all that’s good of them is underground. — American Proverbs
Saiyans don't have much of a concept of 'family.' — Akira Toriyama
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries. — Chris Oyakhilome
Food has the power to change everything, from our health to family dynamics, the environment, and so much more. And it all starts with one bite. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic. — Tori Spelling
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that. — Noah Baumbach
The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times. — R. D. Laing
I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution. — Christina Hoff Sommers
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic. — Nick Carter
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. — Melissa Gilbert
Normal people terrify me, because they haven't had enough problems in their life to know how to handle problems when they come up. Something little happens and they snap. But being from a dysfunctional family means nothing rattles me. Hey once you've driven a drunken father to moms' parole hearing, what else is there? — Christopher Titus
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. — Star Parker
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition. — Cynthia Heimel
You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. — Joseph Kesselring
I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved. — Emmy Rossum
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. — Lisa Kleypas
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. — Gene Hackman
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal. — Carnie Wilson
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. — Kathy Najimy
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. — Sue Grafton
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. — Keri Hulme
A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain. — Nikki Sixx
I grew up in a dysfunctional family. — Melissa Gilbert
I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward. — Octavia Spencer
So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families. — Stephen Karam
The human race is one big dysfunctional family. — Robert Barron
Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem. — Robert Downey, Jr.
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional. — Chris Pine
Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do. — Mike Judge
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. — Downtown Julie Brown
On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family. — Kurt Overhardt
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. — Sara Shepard
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. — Mary Oliver
So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man! — Christopher Titus
We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families. — Cynthia Heimel
Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry. — Jerry Seinfeld
Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other. — Lois McMaster Bujold
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. — Bo Bennett
I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. — James Caan
Everybody has some dysfunction in their families. — Hillary Clinton
Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. — Kenneth Branagh
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family. — Star Jones
In the "Absolutely Fabulous" show, it's a fairly dysfunctional family, but they're not women who are constantly in search of a man. They don't live conventionally, they don't live in a conventional heterosexual relationship. Edina wishes all her children were gay, because as far as she's concerned it's the most glamorous most interesting thing to be. I think it's about bucking convention, really, and living life without apologizing. — Jennifer Saunders
I grew up in Louisiana, and I grew up with a dysfunctional family with some very serious abuse from my stepfather, who could be a very beautiful person on one hand and be terrible on the other, so it leaves your soul troubled as a child. — Tim McGraw
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