Condition Quotes

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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. — James Russell Lowell
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an… — Ambrose Bierce
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy,… — May Sarton
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. — Rainer Maria Rilke
A purpose is the eternal condition of success. — Thornton Wilder
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement,… — Alfred Adler
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon… — Bertrand Russell
My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such. — Rory Bremner
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification… — Clare Short
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those… — Tennessee Williams
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and… — Horace Greeley
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into… — Hannah Arendt
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or… — Rudolf Arnheim
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their… — Nathaniel Branden
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension… — Rollo May
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. — Edward Lear

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