Incurably Quotes

#1. The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#2. Life strove mightily to exile orthodoxy, hospitalize heresy, and trap humanity into stupidity. It was an accumulation of used bandages soiled with layers of blood and pus. Life was the daily changing of the bandages of the heart that made the incurably sick, young and old alike, cry out in pain.

Yukio Mishima

#3. My trouble is that my intelligence is materialistic, agnostic, pessimistic and solitary, while my heart is incurably tender, romantic, loving and gregarious.

T.H. White

#4. I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

Salvatore Ferragamo

#5. I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

Gillian Cross

#6. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!

Henry Miller

#8. Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans."
"But you are an American."
"Incurably so, it seems.

John Green

#9. I was just a little taken aback. That - that wasn't the proposition I was expecting, is all. Excuse me. I fear I am become incurably low-minded." "You can't help that, I'm sure," Ethan said tolerantly. "Being female, and all that." She

Lois McMaster Bujold

#10. She was incurably dishonest.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

A.E. Samaan

#12. A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

Eric Butterworth

#13. I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

H.L. Mencken

#14. Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C.S. Lewis

#15. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Azar Nafisi

#16. That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

Chinua Achebe

#17. Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial ... The camera ... is so utterly unmechanical.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#21. Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Hunter S. Thompson

#22. Human intellect is incurably abstract.

C.S. Lewis

#23. Being lonely does not mean that we are abnormal, love-starved, oversexed, or alienated. Perhaps all it means is that we are incurably human and sensitive to the fact that God made us for an ecstatic togetherness in a body with divine love and with all other persons of sincere will.

Ronald Rolheiser

#24. You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

Chris Prentiss

#25. Man is incurably curious.

Fulton J. Sheen

#26. How inestimably important in its moral results - and therefore how praiseworthy in itself - is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.

Wilkie Collins

#27. Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

Steve Maraboli

#28. Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Philip Roth

#29. The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Plato

#30. I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

Noomi Rapace

#31. Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter

#33. I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

Kanye West

#34. From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Emma Goldman

#35. If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?

Horace

#36. Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#37. My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.

Emma Forrest

#38. It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

Paul Harris

#39. She hated the beach, resented the places where she had played planet to Dick's sun.

F Scott Fitzgerald