Quotes About Habituation

Man can get used to anything, even feeling better.

When reporting on epidemic diseases that primarily struck the poor in Upper Silesia in 1848, the famed German pathologist Rudolf Virchow observed: "it is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events."82 The toleration of horrible situations that affect only the health of others is a phenomenon, sadly, that is still very much with us.

It's amazing what you can get used to, given time.

You get used to being evil.

mas a gente se habitua ao fato de não se habituar.

getting used to being up here consisted in getting used to not getting used

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You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

the tendency to go native if you stay somewhere too long.

All in all, it's only the initial shock that counts. People get used to everything, everything that happens in the occupied zone:

A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it.

She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.

Nothing stays wondrous forever. It's human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it's a new shade of normal.

The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up. He

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent.