Quotes About Antidote

Suffering, in fact, can be helpful in many ways. It spurs your motivation and as many teachings point out, without suffering there would be no determination to be free from samsara. Sadness is an effective antidote to arrogance.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

I understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

Books hold our culture, our past, other worlds, the antidote for sadness.

The best antidote for fear is knowledge.

Why should I suddenly remember 1905 and Paris on the shadow Earth, save that I was very happy that year and I might, reflectively, have sought an antidote for the present?

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades

By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antidote except moonbeams, and he would identify himself by etching a Greek letter onto the foreheads of all his victims as they twitched and gasped their last. The Omega Killer had been born, and it was my fault.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

I have turned to work again and again over the years as an antidote to the pains of life. Work is the best alleviator of sorrow I know, and once again, it is standing me in good stead. So I will work--and cry on my own time.

The enemy is conventional language; the antidote is poetry and mild intoxicants.

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

Action is the antidote to despair.

proposed an antidote to the deadening impact of capitalist spectacle in what he named "constructed situations," which calls on artists to create moments that coax people out of passivity, rendering them the co-creators of what promises to be, according to Debord, a less mediocre life.

Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.

So great is my tedium, so overwhelming the horror of being alive, that I cannot imagine what could possibly serve as a palliative, an antidote, a balm, a source of oblivion.

The antidote to joy is dread.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.