Severe Quotes
434 quotes by 378 authors
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I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as…
— Temple Grandin
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The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work…
— J R Ward
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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You have some severe mental problem I need to be aware of, don’t you? (Shahara) Just because I eat babies for breakfast and pick my…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for…
— Umberto Eco
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Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved…
— Virginia Woolf
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The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.
— Darcey Steinke
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Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
— Jhonen Vasquez
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The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be…
— Noam Chomsky
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The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
— Chris Cleave
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I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for…
— Stephen King
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Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the…
— Ilona Andrews
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We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of…
— Lloyd Jones
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