Armchair Quote by Pablo Picasso

“An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns;…

— Daphne du Maurier

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

— Eugene Delacroix

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

— Peter Paul Rubens

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see,…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session…

— Ishmael Reed

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the…

— Thomas Szasz

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

— Marcia Angell

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death

— Walter Willett

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

— Joshua L. Liebman

Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it…

— N. T. Wright

Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and…

— Melissa Brown

“And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an empty…

— Eckhart Tolle

“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.”

— Karen Traviss