Top 100 Quotes About Symptom
#1. Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.
Albert Vigoleis Thelen
#2. Impartiality is incompatible with the will to affirm oneself or quite simply with the will to exist. To acknowledge another's merits is an alarming symptom, an act against nature.
Emil Cioran
#3. The only real problem is a lack of love. To address the world's problems on any other level is a temporary palliative - a fix but not a healing, a treatment of the symptom but not a cure.
Marianne Williamson
#4. War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
Alfred Hermann Fried
#5. It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.
Whittaker Chambers
#6. Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
#7. To Amalfitano, Jordi seemed a shy and formal boy. Rosa liked his silence, which she mistook for thoughtfulness when it was really just a symptom of the confusion raging in his head.
Roberto Bolano
#8. Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
Watchman Nee
#9. A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.
Robert Morley
#10. Suicide is a symptom of depression. That struck me as odd. I think of a sore throat as a symptom, or a headache, but death? Death as a symptom is too final. You're obviously not going to recover - the symptom is bigger than the disease.
Marshall Thornton
#11. Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.
Alain De Botton
#12. My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.
Dave Barry
#13. At least one of the meanings of a symptom corresponds to the presentation of a sexual fantasy, while there is no such limit to the content of its other meanings.
Sigmund Freud
#14. Pull the string. If you see something wrong, follow it to its end. Don't just fix the symptom and ignore it. If you keep pulling the string you might find the whole blanket falls apart right in front of your eyes. That is the only way to fix the big problems.
Alex Fleming
#15. It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
Alistair Cooke
#16. I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.
Sally Field
#17. One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
Robert Silverberg
#19. Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,
Walter Bender
#20. My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a "symptom"? There
May Sarton
#21. Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
Jillian Michaels
#22. Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.
Garrison Wynn
#23. In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.
Edsger Dijkstra
#24. Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.
Seth
#25. This is one symptom of the deliria no one ever tells you about: Apparently the disease turns you into a world-class liar.
Lauren Oliver
#27. This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
Louise Erdrich
#30. The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
Jeb Hensarling
#31. Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Eugene Ionesco
#32. The dirty little secret of biological psychiatry is that every single drug in the psychopharmacopoeia is palliative. That is, all of them are symptom suppressors, and when you stop taking them you're back at square one.
Sally Brampton
#33. Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
Uri Avnery
#34. Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.
James Hillman
#35. The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
Malcolm Gladwell
#36. Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.
Laura Schlessinger
#37. What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I just tell myself, as I'm writing, "I'll fix it later." And sometimes it's true, I do.
Lorrie Moore
#38. Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.
Frank Tallis
#39. A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.
R.N. Prasher
#40. What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
Alice Miller
#41. Fatigue is an excellent gauge of well-being because it is a very hard symptom to mask. The only way to get rid of fatigue is to treat the underlying causes. Fatigue has many faces, but they all say the same thing - the mental and physical load are too great.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#42. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.
Hugh MacLeod
#43. Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Eugene Ionesco
#44. Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.
Edward Humes
#45. See, this is why I hate Google. You come across one site, match one symptom, and all of a sudden you're dying of carbon monoxide poisoning or cancer of the big toe.
K.J. McPike
#46. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#47. Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.
Samael Aun Weor
#48. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.
Paul Auster
#49. A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
Fernando Flores
#50. Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.
David Simon
#51. Being sick is like walking around with a microscope strapped to your face at all times with your own body squished beneath the slide. You don't look away, at first because you can't - you're too sick - and then because you're afraid that if you do, you might miss a symptom or a sign and die.
Jessica Fechtor
#52. A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Hugh Kingsmill
#53. Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ...
Lauren Mackler
#54. The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
#55. Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself.
Patricia Cornwell
#57. A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
Seth Godin
#58. A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness.
Graham Greene
#59. I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.
Lauryn Hill
#60. Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery.
Steve Maraboli
#61. Exhaustion is a normal pregnancy symptom. I'm building an ecosystem in here!
Rachel Bertsche
#62. Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.
Arthur Koestler
#63. When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Don DeLillo
#64. The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
Petr Skrabanek
#66. It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.
Francis Wyndham
#67. Whether or not, you know, people think that Martin Shkreli is the worst person in the world, the reality is that he is the symptom or a larger problem in an pharmacology industry.
Joy-Ann Reid
#68. It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#69. Something deep in our conscience tells us that hostility is part of the problem to be overcome in the world, not the means by which problems will be overcome. Hostility is a symptom of the disease, not part of the cure.
Brian D. McLaren
#71. After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.
Stephen Colbert
#72. Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate.
John Grisham
#73. The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.
Helen Fisher
#74. Barnett says he realized several things in that moment: the need for humility, the importance of remembering that each of us can learn from anyone and that the dismissed symptom can be the key.
Clifton K. Meador
#75. The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
Antonin Artaud
#76. I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.
Jeh Johnson
#77. Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Elbert Hubbard
#78. Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
#79. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#80. To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.
Ben Domenech
#81. I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.
Richard Clarke Cabot
#83. Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism. -
Ariel Levy
#84. Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.
Geneen Roth
#85. To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.
Liezi
#86. Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct
never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.
Lord Chesterfield
#87. People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
Greg Boyle
#88. The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
#89. The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.
Arthur Koestler
#90. more tax breaks for the very rich is only one symptom of an economic and political system that is grotesquely failing the average American.
Bernie Sanders
#91. People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.
Roberta M. Gilbert
#92. We're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#93. As far as I can tell, the biggest side effect of a gluten sensitivity is that you actually become the number one symptom: a huge pain in the ass.
Celia Rivenbark
#95. Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
Jamie Whyte
#96. Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
Thomas Pynchon
#97. And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More
#98. Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.
Mark Winne
#99. And I found in my study that history is cyclic, and everywhere in the world you find this pattern in ancient times: that as a culture begins to decline, you have an efflorescence of transgender phenomena. That is a symptom of cultural collapse.
Camille Paglia
