Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1390 authors
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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition…
— Albert Camus
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When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that…
— Josh Lanyon
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I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.†No one is bad with names. That is…
— Mindy Kaling
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get…
— Frederick Douglass
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness
— Nhat Hanh
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Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great…
— Caroline Knapp
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He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in…
— Angela Carter
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The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which…
— Clive Barker
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Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find…
— Martha Beck
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There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him,…
— Thomas Paine
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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first;…
— Nikolai Gogol
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The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he…
— Albert Camus
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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
— Erich Fromm
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We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days…
— Virchand Gandhi
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What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it…
— Caitlin Moran
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Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.
— Lisa Genova
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There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But…
— Hamza Yusuf
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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access;…
— John Edward Williams
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