Consumptive Quotes

#1. If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

Mervyn Peake

#2. Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

Theophile Gautier

#3. I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Clay Shirky

#5. I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

Walton Goggins

#6. I used to know Brian Howard well
a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous
constantly attacking people with his fists in public places
so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

Evelyn Waugh

#7. And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

Elias Canetti

#9. When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege

#10. Palpatine has the presence of a collapsing star and the consumptive void that results from it. It draws you in. It takes something from you. It is a flensing, frightening force. But Rax stands tall,

Chuck Wendig

#11. A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Wendell Berry

#12. I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Truman Capote

#13. You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Angelique Kidjo

#14. He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Robert Ley

#15. I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

Judah Friedlander

#16. It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

Hillary Clinton

#17. THERE ARE LOW points, and there are low points. This-rattling down an endless stretch of interstate in a Greyhound bus toward the middle of farm-country-nowhere a week after barely graduating high school-was my low point.

Nicole Williams

#18. Oh. There was a black smudge on the real door. I thought that meant it was fake," I admit.

Kasie West

#19. For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Mark Lynas

#20. I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

Jay-Z

#21. That night, at the lighthouse, everything else faded away and my entire world became Sofia Claremont.

Bella Forrest

#22. If there are any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. Where there is no Sachchidanand [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], there is night (darkness).

Dada Bhagwan

#24. Life is about discovering things worth dying for.

Criss Jami

#25. We tell ourselves lies to survive when we know the truth will kill us." "It

Tiffany Reisz

#26. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Amory Lovins