Condition Quotes

1998 Condition quotes by 1358 unique authors

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… — Henri Matisse
There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. — Alice Sebold
You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent — Frances Hardinge
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. — Jane Smiley
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. — Douglas Coupland
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength… — Thomas Hardy
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that… — Henry Rollins
To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing… — Georges Bataille
God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is… — Oswald Chambers
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really… — Leo Tolstoy
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of… — Dean Koontz
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are… — Victor Hugo
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life… — Ernest Becker
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
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 ‘doing’ 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 don’t let it be another cop. I’m outta bail money. Wait a minute…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

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