Sophocles Quotes
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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The path to joy leads through despair.
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
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We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.
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When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Despair often breeds disease.
