Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1390 authors
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She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.
— Diana Gabaldon
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As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it…
— Thomas Ligotti
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To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in…
— Aldous Huxley
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I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis…
— Doris Lessing
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I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no…
— Lorrie Moore
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When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For…
— George Orwell
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I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which…
— Julian Barnes
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The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly…
— R. D. Laing
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As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
— Parker J. Palmer
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I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble…
— Susanna Kaysen
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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of…
— John Milton
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If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.…
— Henry Miller
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,…
— Anatole France
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When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you…
— Anthony Kiedis
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
— Frantz Fanon
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I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a…
— Stephen Fry
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I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're…
— Kevin Hearne
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If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for…
— Tyler Perry
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