Stephen Fry Quotes

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

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• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Dying
  • Here

• Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Spiritual

• What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • World
  • Today

• If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Responsibility
  • Growth
  • Integration

• Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Believe
  • Recognize
  • Symptoms

• I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories
  • Involved
  • Vans

• The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Problem
  • Deeper
  • Symptoms

• Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Love
  • Essence
  • Symptoms

• I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Hard
  • Painter
  • Vans

• SOCIAL DISTANCING is about protecting individuals, in our community, who are more at-risk of contracting fatal symptoms than others.

  

  Cristina Garcia
  • Community
  • Risk
  • Protecting

• ADD is a neurological syndrome whose classic defining triad of symptoms include impulsivity, distractibility, and hyperactivity or excess energy.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Energy
  • Symptoms
  • Syndrome

• 1922 was a bad year for Elizabeth. She was disappointed by some of the reviews of The Enchanted April although it was to prove the most popular — excepting the first — of all her novels. She suffered from depressions that she couldn’t throw off. Her doctor diagnosed menopausal symptoms.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Prove
  • Novels
  • Disappointed

• The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

  

  Harry F. Byrd
  • Virginia
  • Private business
  • Business corporation

• I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Disease
  • Symptoms
  • Donate

• Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Children
  • Development
  • Triumph

• Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • I Love
  • Irish
  • Accent

• My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy - a bit of chest pain, arm strain, or indigestion. People ignore those symptoms because they think it's trivial. Don't feel afraid to come forward.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Person
  • Afraid
  • Ignore

• I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Love
  • Hungry
  • Fill

• I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art even cartoon art is never really finished; it is abandoned.

  

  Brooke McEldowney
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Art

• Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.

  

  Armand Nassery
  • Reality
  • Dance
  • Comeback

• It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

  

  Stephen Fry
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