Quotes About Hypochondriacs

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

It's not that men fear intimacy,' I said to Eleanor. 'It's that they're hypochondriacs of intimacy: They always think they have it when they don't. Gerard thinks we're very close but half the time he's talking to me like he met me forty-five minutes ago, telling me things about himself I've known for years, and asking me questions about myself that he should know the answers to already. Last night he asked me what my middle name was. God, I can't talk about it.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

later disgraced Vice President Spiro Agnew. "In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4H club—the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politcs, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hypochondriacs from the dead body of ideology and morality.