Incurable Quotes
118 Incurable quotes by 100 unique authors
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
— Juvenal
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
— Nick Park
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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent…
— Georges Rouault
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce…
— Sigmund Freud
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Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
— Ogden Nash
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...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the…
— Chris Higgins
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Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
— Marcel Proust
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
— Pliny the Elder
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There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
— Timothy Keller
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Wanderlust is incurable.
— Mark Jenkins
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Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the…
— Louise Hay
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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
— C.S. Lewis
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My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged…
— Bella Abzug
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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate…
— Victor Hugo
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Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian…
— John Climacus
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God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that…
— Charles Spurgeon
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When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues…
— H. L. Mencken
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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
— Winston Churchill
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We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the…
— Tony Judt
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Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation,…
— Kenny Smith
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