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Condition Quotes (page 15)

It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A network of symbols has been introduced, an entire awesome technology wrested from the gods. It makes you feel like a stranger in your own dying. Don DeLillo
Sigmund Freud quote: "Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy..."
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Sigmund Freud
...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times? E. L. Doctorow
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us. George Santayana
The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development. It is quite essential that that liberation should occur and it may be presumed that it has been to some extent achieved by everyone who has reached a normal state. Indeed, the whole progress of society rests upon the opposition between successive generations. On the other hand, there is a class of... Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Schiller quote: "Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal..."
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it. Friedrich Schiller
love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage of by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she incurred the disorder. This disease, like Caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient. Ambrose Bierce
When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without. Edith Hamilton
Kemal Ataturk quote: "Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to..."
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. Kemal Ataturk
The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them. Henry David Thoreau
the longer i think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead, that only occasionally, in certain lights and atmospheric conditions, do we appear in their field of vision. W. G. Sebald
Saul Bellow quote: "You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on..."
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. Saul Bellow
To set out for rehearsals in that quivering quarter-hour is to engage conclusions, not beginnings, for one walks past the guilded hallucinations of poverty with a corrupt resignation touched by details, as if the destitute, in their orange-tinted back yards, under their dusty trees, or climbing into their favelas, were all natural scene designers and poverty were not a condition but an art. Deprivation is made lyrical, and twilight, with the patience of alchemy, almost transmutes despair... Derek Walcott
Stephen King quote: "Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of..."
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. Stephen King
On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited me to dinner with Dick Morris, but only on condition that I brought Rushdie (who was staying in my house) along with me. No Rushdie: no invitation. So I never did get to meet Dick Morris. Christopher Hitchens

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