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Quotes About Atrophy

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.
~ Omar El Akkad, American War
I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
~ Clarke Peters
Cuando la fe se atrofia, parece como que se deforma o desfigura. ¿Acaso no hemos visto también en el terreno cultural, es decir, no sólo a escala individual sino social, cómo la fe reprimida degenera en superstición?
~ Viktor Frankl
After years of repetitive work, you will often need to dig hard to find your passions, redefine your dreams, and revive hobbies that you let atrophy to near extinction. The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
~ Timothy Ferriss
You can dwarf a soul just as you can dwarf a plant, by depriving it of a full environment. Such a soul for a time may have a "name to live." Its character may betray no sign of atrophy. But its very virtue somehow has the pallor of a flower that is grown in darkness, or as the herb which has never seen the sun, no fragrance breathes from its spirit.
~ Henry Drummond
Máte-li nohu v sád?e, b?hem šesti týdn? svaly atrofují o ?ty?icet až šedesát procent. Cosi podobného se stane s vaším chodidlem, je-li uv?zn?no v bot?.
~ Christopher McDougall
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
~ Victor Hugo
Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses..
~ Jim Morrison
I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.
~ Primo Levi
I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
~ Karen Duffy
In this post-Freudian world in which we live, we have put the phobias and neuroses at the center and pushed "normalcy" out to the margin. More and more, we are doing the same for ugliness: enshrining it at the heart of our culture, while beauty is left to atrophy and decay.
~ Unknown
Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.
~ John Dos Passos
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
~ Martha Gellhorn
common symptom of atrophy is nervous exhaustion.
~ Unknown
The characteristic symptoms of atrophy include a dry tongue. In
~ Unknown
The characteristic symptoms of atrophy include a dry tongue. In advanced cases, it may be narrow, thin, withered, or cracked, but it will always be dry. It can also be red from heat caused by a lack of fluids, or pale from lack of nutrition.
~ Unknown
In practice, most people will exhibit a mix of tissue states—usually two, and sometimes three. Diseases often go through a progression of states. Opposites are often active: irritation/depression, constriction/relaxation, and atrophy/stagnation. In chronic cases, the organism seems to reduce to the least active: atrophy, torpor, and depression. The
~ Unknown
If the functions of the body are left to atrophy, the quality of life becomes merely adequate, and for some even dismal. But if one takes control of what the body can do, and learns to impose order on physical sensations, entropy yields to a sense of enjoyable harmony in consciousness.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.
~ Unknown
It has to do instead with the presentiment men have at every moment of their lives, a foreboding adamantly hushed and hidden—that left to their own devices, in the dull, quiet company of passing time, they would atrophy faster. As though they'd been designed for a brief spurt of intensity, a high-stakes race, a triumph and, immediately afterward, exhaustion
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Research shows that just as too much stress creates a biochemical condition that damages neurons in the brain, too little stress leads to the atrophy, death and lack of replacement of old neurons. This is why lifelong learning is widely recognized as one of the key practices necessary to avoid Alzheimer's disease.
~ Unknown