Symptom Quotes

160 Symptom quotes by 142 unique authors

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's… — Walter Bagehot
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring. — Fernando Flores
Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure. — Anodea Judith
Alternative healing does not always offer a quick fix of a symptom, but it does offer a permanent healing that resonates beyond physical well-being. It… — Alice McCall
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social… — William Hurrell Mallock
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary,… — Harriet B. Braiker
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice… — Michelle Alexander
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims… — Whittaker Chambers
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare… — Murray Leinster
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… — Florence King
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he… — A. N. Wilson
Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the… — Hugh Jackman
Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite… — David Simon
A "dis-ease" is simply a name to the respective symptom (or collection of symptoms) that occurs when acids damage the cells of the body (or… — Robert Morse
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. — Eric Hoffer
Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity… — Watchman Nee
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. — Maxwell Maltz
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. — Vernor Vinge
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the… — Justin Long
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another… — Sylvia Plath
Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with… — Garrison Wynn
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte
Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death.… — Virginia Woolf
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. — Julie Klausner

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