Quote by Philip Roth

“There it was: the tactless severity of vital male youth, not a single doubt about his coherence, blind with self-confidence and the virtue of…

— Philip Roth

“His level of health and maturity could not be dependent on someone else’s. If it were, he would be a slave to someone else’s…

— Henry Cloud

“It was fear. Fear that, after all the years of protecting his health, his heart, his mind, setting bedtimes and boundaries, giving warnings about…

— Lisa Unger

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

“Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would…

— Michel Faber

“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he…

— Marcel Proust

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his…

— Richard Mead

“he has no more idea of exerting himself to overcome obstacles than he has of restraining his natural appetites; and these two things are…

— Anne Brontë

“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

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh