Tubercular Quotes

#1. Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Tom Robbins

#2. Her optimism flew high, not only for her eventual cure of which she was sure, but for everything that would happen to her henceforth. That too, she knew was a characteristic of the tubercular - the very quality , in fact, which made them such interesting patients.

Kathryn Hulme

#3. By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Ugo Betti

#5. I'm proud of my short hair. I don't think I will grow it long again.

Sylvie Meis

#6. If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in the world wouldn't be able to do much more than negotiate the treaty.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#7. Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

Herman Melville

#8. Emotionally, at least, people can't live by taking in each other's washing.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

Warren Buffett

#11. The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

#12. It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

Ferdinand Christian Baur

#13. I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

Nell Freudenberger