Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image ““I was thinking the other day that hypochondria's a stepbrother to masochism,' said Hugo.”” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Hypochondriacs contract fatal diseases at the same rate as everyone else.” — Malin Persson Giolito Copy Share Image
“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in the body… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I would have thought that you'd be tired of vomiting blood and going to therapy and the prospect of being a nervous wreck all… — Maki Murakami Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
“metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.” — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
