Condition Quotes

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I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who… — Diana Wynne Jones
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great… — Mother Teresa
Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what… — Daniel Defoe
It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition… — Daniel Defoe
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather… — Daniel Defoe
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and… — Daniel Defoe
I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength… — Lisa Unger
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight… — Thomas Ligotti
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now,… — Rosie Thomas
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up… — Karl Marx
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we… — Jane Yolen
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. — James A. Baldwin
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of… — Voltaire
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated… — Guy Sajer

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