Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

— Pliny the Elder

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil…

— Simone Weil

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves,…

— Hermann Hesse

“If it chance your eye offends you, Pluck it out lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And…

— A.E. Housman

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

— Elie Wiesel

You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its…

— Albert Schweitzer

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“There's a sickness in my soul, and I don't know, but I've been told it's incurable”

— Everlast

“He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.”

— Jim Thompson

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails…

— Plato

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

— Blake Griffin

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history,…

— Thabo Mbeki

The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent…

— Jeffrey Lang

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

— Tracy Lawrence