Top 89 Quotes About Pathology
#1. Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.
Jane Fonda
#2. A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Susan Cain
#3. That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm
#4. Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology ...
Susan Sontag
#5. The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
Erich Fromm
#6. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch
#7. My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer.""What's that?""You have to find out what caused it.
Kathy Acker
#8. There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
Samuel Wilson
#9. Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I've checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?
Jeaniene Frost
#10. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.
Howard Rheingold
#12. Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.
James Hillman
#13. I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ...
John Geddes
#14. Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.
Tom Robbins
#15. Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle?
Joe Bageant
#16. Faced with the sentence therapistsneedspecialtreatment we need to know if this is a text about sex crimes or about speech pathology before we can correctly read it aloud.
David Crystal
#17. There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.
Scott Stossel
#18. Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections.
Mat Johnson
#19. Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.
Robert Heilbroner
#20. Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
Noam Chomsky
#21. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
Don DeLillo
#22. Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.
Diana Trilling
#23. It's become horribly and offensively popular to say that someone is on the autism spectrum, so all I'll say is his inability to notice when I was crying had to be some kind of pathology.
Lena Dunham
#24. We've reduced the wonder of abundance to the pathology of greed, and we've missed the fullness of creation for the want of the moment.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. - OLIVER SACKS
Maia Szalavitz
#26. We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
Irvin D. Yalom
#29. People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.
Ruth Ozeki
#30. The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing.
Primo Levi
#32. The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
Tom DeMarco
#33. Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
Eddie Van Halen
#34. I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
Naomi Judd
#35. Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.
Abhijit Naskar
#36. Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Mason Cooley
#37. When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
Nicole Krauss
#38. Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
B.W. Powe
#40. You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
Richard Selzer
#41. Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.
Yann Martel
#42. The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#43. The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.
Chris Hedges
#44. It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself (p. 5)
Cathy Caruth
#45. The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill ... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.
Ronald Goldman
#46. Writing's a pathology," I say. "I'd pack it in tomorrow, if I could.
David Mitchell
#47. For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation.
Oliver Sacks
#48. Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.
David Korten
#49. The trick, I suppose, is to find someone with a touch of the pathology you require, but not so much that it will destroy you. But,
Tim Kreider
#50. Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing ... social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.
Thomas Sowell
#51. Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
#53. He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.
Galt Niederhoffer
#54. Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?
Arnold Mandel
#55. What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.
Deepak Chopra
#56. We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
Noam Chomsky
#57. The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
Ramsey Clark
#58. The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
course you never do.
Gregory Bateson
#59. For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.
Nell Casey
#60. DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.
K. Howard Joslin
#61. As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.
Christopher Hitchens
#62. Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?
Craig Ferguson
#63. The deeper he got into his medical career, the more Burry felt constrained by his problems with other people in the flesh. He briefly tried to hide in pathology, where the people had the decency to be dead, but that didn't work.
Michael Lewis
#64. I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
Fritz Lang
#65. Don't you think we're oversexed?" "You're the shrink," I said. "You tell me." "Yes," she said. "I believe we are." "What should we do about it?" I said. "Encourage the pathology," Susan said, and smiled her rebelangel smile at me.
Robert B. Parker
#66. We generally think of atherosclerosis as a condition of the heart, but it's been described as "an omnipresent pathology that involves virtually the entire human organism."68 You have blood vessels in every one of your organs, including your brain.
Michael Greger
#67. Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.
Rudolf Virchow
#68. I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.
Robert T. Bakker
#69. Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
Avital Ronell
#70. In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
Baruj Benacerraf
#72. By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.
Laurence Miller
#73. Remember a person with Autism isn't a set of symptoms or statistics always remember and remind them that they're a person first.
Paul Isaacs
#74. When you take the time to really know yourself - know your values, know your beliefs, know what is important to you - you can make the right choice, even when it's hard.We all have choices. We can choose our direction, every single day.
Suraj Dahal
#75. Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
#77. Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find the bull among the matador cells
Yann Martel
#79. It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.
Frank Tallis
#80. However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.
Na'ama Yehuda
#81. The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
George Soros
#83. Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
Craig Ferguson
#84. For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.
Na'ama Yehuda
#85. There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.
Christopher Hitchens
#86. One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Alain De Botton
#87. For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.
Charles Bernheimer
#88. Although my work leads me to spend time with Nazi skinheads, diseased street prostitutes and homeless alcoholics, I do not have the strength of character to be a pathologist.
William T. Vollmann
#89. Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
William Thomas Councilman
