Malady Quotes
58 quotes by 49 authors
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Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly…
— Herman E. Daly
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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they…
— Thornton Wilder
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These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
— Marcel Proust
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
— Naguib Mahfouz
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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though…
— Alberto Moravia
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Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such…
— Charles Dickens
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Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative…
— Lawrence Anthony
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
— William Wilberforce
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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we…
— Orhan Pamuk
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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
— Oscar Wilde
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Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
— Eric Hoffer
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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most…
— Shimon Peres
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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second…
— Charles Dickens
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Time is a Test of Trouble But not a Remedy If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady
— Emily Dickinson
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At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
— Edmund Wilson
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Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.
— François Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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