Quotes About Condition

he told them of the dire condition she was in when she arrived

This is someone who makes his living studying disorders of the brain and the nerves. Yet he could not make sense of his own condition.

Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;

Fear is also defined as "a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, or pain; whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid."2 Others define it this way: F.E.A.R.: Faith Exits and Runs F.E.A.R.: Forget Everything and React Or the ever popular: F.E.A.R.: False Evidence Appearing Real

I like the word "only" in the last sentence: "…you are only a troubled guest / on the dark earth." The "only" suggests that to be a troubled guest is a normal condition, and that you might have many other identities at the same time. But to be only a troubled guest is of course a particularly sad identity.

Because everyday could be my last I have the desire to make the most of each and every minute. I try to lead as normal a life l as possible and not think about my condition or regret the thing it prevents me from doing which are not that many .my goal is simple it is complete understanding of the universe. Why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.

How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?

It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is letting them down at the highest social levels.

Poverty is not, in Judaism, a blessed condition. It is, the rabbis said, "a kind of death"3 and "worse than fifty plagues" (Bava Batra 116a). They said, "Nothing is harder to bear than poverty, because he who is crushed by poverty is like one to whom all the troubles of the world cling and upon whom all the curses of Deuteronomy have descended. If all other troubles were placed on one side and poverty on the other, poverty would outweigh them all.

That is, when I have not spent much time thinking about the fallen condition and redemptive solution of the passage—which is hard, spiritual, honest soul-searching work!—I find that my message and teaching tend toward mere information. It may be good, literarily astute, and doctrinally orthodox information, but it ultimately falls short of the faith-eliciting and virtue-forming goal of the Gospels.

At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting you hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yerterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.

la extinción del deseo no es sólo el ideal de santurrones puritanos, sino de personas que han reflexionado mucho sobre la condición humana, como los budistas.

They sent me three songs written by a Texas songwriter they represented named Jerry Lynn Williams—"Forever Man," "Something's Happening," and "See What Love Can Do"—and they were good. I loved the way he sang, and I sent back a message to say I would do it, on the condition that they produced the songs and provided the musicians. I think it was, professionally, the first time I'd ever had to back down.

Men can let the contents of the world grow to such an extent that the world and God disappear behind them, but they cannot annul the human condition itself. This remains alive in each individual soul; and when God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language of science to take their place.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Lehman's condition was probably worse than reported at the time,

If we sound fluency, and we write poetry which appears to articulate that condition—Carlos thinks hard about this—a reader will not acknowledge wires as nets in a poem as anything but metaphor for the mill.