Ill Quotes - Page 39

• Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

  Carrie Fisher

  Awards, Years, Bipolar

  "Wishful Drinking like". Book by Carrie Fisher, December 2, 2008.

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• God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning.

  Joe Hill

  Devil, Allies, Different

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• A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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• It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Opening Up, Secret

  "The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology". Book by Joseph Virtue, 2002.

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• I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead

  Sarah MacLean

  Speak

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.95, Scholastic Inc.

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• Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." He smiled them, seeming to have come back to himself, slightly embarrassed. "That's what I believe.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Believe, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered if she was ill, and she even thought briefly that she might have been poisoned. She felt Attolia reach out and take her hand. To the court it was unexceptional, hardly noticed, but to Eddis it was an anchor, and she held on to it as if to a lifeline. Sounis was looking at her with concern. Her responding smile was artificial.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Pain, Heart, Hands

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• The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

  Margaret Mitchell

  Liars, Honor, Coward

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

  John Donne

  Heart, Destiny, May

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nice, Eye, Cutting

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• And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Healthy, Get Better

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Heart, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Destiny, Suffering

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, Get Better

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.

  Gena Showalter

  Black, Insane, Holes

  Gena Showalter (2017). “Gena Showalter Intertwined Complete Collection: Intertwined\Unraveled\Twisted”, p.35, Harlequin

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• You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, Quality, Likes

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• I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Bed, May, Howl

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• Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Moonlight, Mets

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 60

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• Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

  Lorrie Moore

  Men, Water, Car

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Anagrams”, p.56, Vintage

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• The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

  Carl Jung

  Girl, Dream, Stars

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.90, Dell

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• For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.

  Lady Gaga

  Mom, Children, Fall

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• The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Desire, Technique, Watches

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• So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

  Theodore Roethke

  Waiting, Dying, Longing

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.232, Anchor

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• I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

  Spike Milligan

  Headstone

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