Quotes About Symptom

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

Medicating the symptom of any illness without exploring its root cause is just a classically hare-brained Western way to think that anyone could ever get truly better.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Misbehavior is the symptom. Discouragement is the disease. Encouragement is the cure. —Betty Lou Bettner

Shortly before Corbyn became head of the party in 2015, Scottish columnist Stephen Daisley, who does not think Corbyn is an antisemite, observed, "How much easier it would make things" if he were. One could then simply attribute political developments in the Labour Party to the prejudices of one man. But, he continued, "this isn't about Jeremy Corbyn; he's just a symptom and a symbol. The Left, and not just the fringes, has an antisemitism problem.

Your love for me was a symptom that your brain hadn't developed.

Every symptom is a word in the language of disease, but sometimes we can't hear them properly. And even if we do, we can't always make out the full sentence... So we just shush them, one word at a time.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

My insistence on leaving so early is in the end a symptom of fear. In a world of randomness and surprises, it's a technique I've developed to ward off anxiety and an unholy, unnameable sense of dread. I want to be on time the same way others lust for power and from a similar drive for security; it makes a little sense, though only a little, in light of the fact that I spent my childhood waiting for a father who never showed up. It's my own crazy way of trying to stay sane.

Or, as neurologist Jeffrey Victoroff describes it, "ADHD is a symptom in search of a disorder in search of a syndrome."38

The neurotic preoccupied with his symptom is led to believe that his central task is one of confrontation with his particular obsession or phobia. In a sense his neurosis allows him to take control of his destiny—to transform the whole of life's meaning into the simplified meaning emanating from his self-created world.

The "symptom" theory goes as follows: An affair simply alerts us to a preexisting condition, either a troubled relationship or a troubled person.

But one theme comes up repeatedly: affairs as a form of self-discovery, a quest for a new (or a lost) identity. For these seekers, infidelity is less likely to be a symptom of a problem, and is more often described as an expansive experience that involves growth, exploration, and transformation.

Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.

People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.

The true act of mourning is not to suffer from the loss of the loved object; it is to discern one day, on the skin of the relationship, a certain tiny stain, appearing there as the symptom of a certain death : for the first time I am doing harm to the one I love, involuntarily, of course, but without panic.

A child uncertain of its birth date is a classic symptom of dysfunction within a family.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

In spite of their sadness - because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another - the three young men were happy.

There was a silence. In spite of their sadness—because of it, even; for their sadness was they symptom of their love for one another—the three young men were happy.

For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—

Addiction is finding a quick and dirty solution to the symptom of the problem, which prevents or distracts one from the harder and longer-term task of solving the real problem.