Contagious Quote by Elie Wiesel

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

— Plato

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves,…

— Hermann Hesse

“If it chance your eye offends you, Pluck it out lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And…

— A.E. Housman

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil…

— Simone Weil

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

— Pliny the Elder

You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its…

— Albert Schweitzer

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“There's a sickness in my soul, and I don't know, but I've been told it's incurable”

— Everlast

“He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.”

— Jim Thompson

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another…

— Angela Carter

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

— Napoleon Hill