Condition Quotes

1998 Condition quotes by 1358 unique authors

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own… — Martha C. Nussbaum
Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was… — Peggy Orenstein
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then… — Saint Augustine
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith. — Andrew Murray
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the… — Saint Augustine
... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God… — Jerry Bridges
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The… — R C Sproul
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance.… — Jostein Gaarder
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it. — Friedrich Schiller
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. — Diana Gabaldon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. — Parker J. Palmer
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
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
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
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
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
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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