Condition Quotes

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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar.… — Deb Caletti
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is â€˜doingâ€™ his… — C.S. Lewis
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk… — Jean Vanier
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend. — Julia Cameron
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is… — Wendell Berry
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of… — Thomas Jefferson
Please donâ€™t let it be another cop. Iâ€™m outta bail money. Wait a minuteâ€¦I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark) Not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something — Arthur Phillips
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of… — Tennessee Williams
They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear.… — Stephen Dobyns
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of… — Flann O'Brien
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others… — Simone de Beauvoir
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as… — Simone de Beauvoir
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle

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