Symptoms Quotes - Page 15

Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to go mad," she said firmly. "Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

David Eddings

Mother, Mad, Looking Forward

David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.246, Random House

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Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and irregular or heavy cycles. Severe hypothyroidism may cause the menses to stop. Dr. Barnes noted his patients with menstrual problems usually suffered many other telltale symptoms of hypothyroidism. Mine do as well. A large majority of menstrual problems resolve after treatment with dessicated thyroid.

Mark Starr

Teenager, Pms, Suffering

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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Chuck Palahniuk

Optimism, Disease, Firsts

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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

Winning, Evil, Hatred

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Eric Hoffer

Addiction, Experts, Watches

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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

Louise Erdrich

Thinking, Hands, Illness

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To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.

Michael J. Fox

Mean, Long, People

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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

Thomas Ligotti

Memories, Dark, Hysteria

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Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers?

Robert Graves

Pain, Love Is, Hands

Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.

Dan Brown

Cancer, Doe, Needs

Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.

Alexis Carrel

Cancer, Healing, Dark

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COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

Robert Morley

Doctors, Giving, Worry

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It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

Alistair Cooke

Believe, America, People

Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.183, Open Road Media

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... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

Albert Einstein

Civilization, Childhood, Humanity

Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.18, Open Road Media

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... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Albert Einstein

Lying, Hero, Men

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.4, Broadway Books

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Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

Arthur Koestler

Silly, Men, Civilization

Arthur Koestler (1955). “The trail of the dinosaur & other essays”

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Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

Jamie Whyte

Cynicism, Faculty, Critical

Jamie Whyte (2004). “Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional

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A "dis-ease" is simply a name to the respective symptom (or collection of symptoms) that occurs when acids damage the cells of the body (or set in motion an inflammatory response), and a symptom is experienced. Names of "dis-eases" may seem complex but please understand that they are simply: location, location, location! One must alkalize the body to reverse the inflammation and return balance to the body.

Robert Morse

Inspiring, Cells, Names

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Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

Bruce H. Lipton

Health, Doe, Helping

Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

Chris Prentiss

Withdrawal, Substance, Psychological

Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.25, BookBaby

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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Thomas More

Emotional, Individuality, Individualism

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If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Responsibility, Growth, Conformity

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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Lytton Strachey

Independent, Past, Important

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In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

Paul Tillich

Expression, Safety, Creative

Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

William S. Burroughs

Pain, Cancer, Laughing

William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

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