Quotes About Nervosa

#1. I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

#2. Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its proportions to what she could manage.

Carol Lee

#3. I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.

Wayne Huizenga

#4. Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

Richard Rohr

#5. I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Albert Camus

#6. Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

#7. Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.

Lauren Oliver

#8. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#9. Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

Sue Grafton

#10. For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you.

Lauren Oliver

#11. She was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.

Margaret Atwood

#12. Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

Carol Lee

#13. Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

Thomas Merton

#14. I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.

Rupert Sanders

#15. When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.

Hippocrates

#16. We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.

Ann Macbeth

#17. Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

Marya Hornbacher

#18. Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

John Prescott

#19. Then I took a shower, unlocked the door, and set out on destroying myself.

Emma Woolf

#20. Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

Lauren Oliver

#21. The disease. Amor deliria nervosa. You can't catch it from me. I'm safe." Alex told me that very same thing, once. I push the memories of him away, willing them deep into the darkness. "And

Lauren Oliver

#22. I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#23. The winner isn't the first one to get there, but the first one to make the most of all the potential of the discovery.

Ferran Soriano

#24. How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

Lauren Oliver

#26. Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Francois Fenelon

#27. The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

Donna Tartt

#28. Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#29. Dr. Steven Bratman has coined the term orthorexia nervosa, a pathological fixation on eating proper food.

Lierre Keith