Debility Quotes

#1. Among the numerous luxuries of the table ... coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions ... is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

Benjamin Franklin

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Sanjay Kumar

#3. Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?

John Walter Bratton

#5. When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Anne Lamott

#6. The gospel simply means "the good news of Jesus."
Justice simply means "making what is wrong, right."
Gospel justice is the good news of Jesus that makes what is wrong, right.

Chris Marlow

#7. With each day, I give thanks for the blessings of life - the blessings of another day and the chance to do something with it. Something good. Something significant. Something helpful. No matter how small it might seem. I want to keep making a difference.

Mamie Till-Mobley

#8. Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#9. There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

Novalis

#10. Nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.

Thomas Mann

#11. I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

Alice McDermott

#12. When uncomfortable, my instinct is not to avoid the discomfort but to become at peace with it.

Josh Waitzkin

#13. How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it
that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

J.G. Holland

#14. PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Abraham Flexner

#16. Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

Veronica Roth

#17. Dignity, virtue, affability, and bearing," Mrs. Lytton recited over and over, turning it into a nursery rhyme.
Georgiana would glance at the glass, checking her dignified bearing and affable expression.
Olivia would sing back to her mother: "Debility, vanity, absurdity, and ... brainlessness!

Eloisa James

#18. A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#19. Boredom is itself worry.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

Richard Armitage

#21. Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.

Seneca.

#22. It seemed as if, once aging led to debility, it was impossible for anyone to be happy. *

Atul Gawande

#23. My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that's worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

Charlotte Eriksson

#24. T is not faces, not color, not appearnces that matter. - Soren

Kathryn Lasky

#25. The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

#26. In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Joseph Addison

#27. I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility.

Joan Didion

#28. Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.

Marquis De Sade

#30. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare

#31. In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Emile M. Cioran

#32. Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Caleb Colton