Symptoms Quotes - Page 13

• "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

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• You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Heart, Focus, Conditions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

  Isaac Marion

  Real, Handicaps, Left

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

  George Carlin

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I just tell myself, as I'm writing, "I'll fix it later." And sometimes it's true, I do.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Causes, Sometimes

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Confusion

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• That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

  Howard Nemerov

  Mean, Character, Stories

  Howard Nemerov (1993). “A Howard Nemerov Reader”, p.186, University of Missouri Press

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• You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

  Ken Kesey

  Character, People, Mad

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• The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.

  Billy Graham

  Confusion, Phases, Passing

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• Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Long, Honor

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great”

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

  David Wessel

  Fall, Commodity Prices, Oil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Simple, Thinking

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• Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kind, Mental Illness, Tradition

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• You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Use, Camps

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• Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us know we have an unbalanced perspective, or we're not being loving and grateful. So the body's signs and symptoms are not something terrible.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Grateful, Giving, Perspective

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Select

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• Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

  Emily Dickinson

  Communication, Perfect, Silence

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• What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.

  Ralph Merkle

  Treatment, Proven

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• The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.

  William C. Menninger

  Reality, Emotional, Maturity

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• Unless you seek out help for your symptoms, you'll never really know that that's not how everyone feels. You go through life thinking that this is how you feel in certain situations and that I can ease the tensions by doing this or that.

  Matty Mullins

  Thinking, Ease, How You Feel

  Source: www.theshowlastnight.com

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• Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.

  Uri Avnery

  Resistance, Violence, Facts

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Ideas

  Source: cinema.com

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.

  Laura Bush

  Heart, Disease, Helping

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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