Disorder Quotes - Page 9

• A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

  Wallace Stevens

  Order, Two, Violent

  "Connoisseur of Chaos" l. 1 (1942)

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• Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Disease, Daggers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.21, 谷月社

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• The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Nice, Character, Differences

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.195, e-artnow

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• A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Order, Inward

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• Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Brain, Causes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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• What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

  Susan Sontag

  Needs, Companionship, Feels

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.11, Macmillan

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• love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Love Is, Obsessive Compulsive, Mental Illness

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• But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

  James A. Baldwin

  Grief, Keys, Punishment

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• Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art Of War, Men, Confusion

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Doubt, Lovers, Pretension

  "The William James Reader".

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• I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Suicide, People, Bipolar

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• I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

  Darrell Hammond

  Personality, Schizophrenia, Multiple

  "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Caring, Alzheimer's, People

  "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.

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• As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Mean, Play

  "Fat is a fashionable issue" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2007.

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• Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

  Stephen Fry

  Bipolar, Lucky, Goes On

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Swings, People

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• People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

  Claire Danes

  People, Bipolar, Boundaries

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• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  Rachel Cusk

  Epidemics, Eating Disorder, Female

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• There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Creating, Order

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• Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Today's World, Danger

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mean, Years, Pioneers

  "Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a 'Working-Class Domestic Goddess'". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 25, 2011.

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• In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Losing Control, World, Has Beens

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• And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

  Molly Ivins

  Funny Things, Optimist

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