The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
– Roland Barthes
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- Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure. – Roland Barthes
- We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us. – Roland Barthes
- The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. – Roland Barthes
- Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. – Roland Barthes
- Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering. – Roland Barthes
- In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject. – Roland Barthes
- Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive. – Roland Barthes
- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
- Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t -œpurify- it. – Roland Barthes
- I have not a desire but a need for solitude. – Roland Barthes
- Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis. – Roland Barthes
- Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. – Roland Barthes
- Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. – Gene Kranz
- … He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. – Robinson Jeffers
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- Create an incapacity and you will incapacitate your creativity – Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
- The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. – Idries Shah
- Laziness – The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. – Idries Shah
- If the pull of the moon can disturb the ocean, why can’t the pull of planets cause a disturbance in the mind of creatures like us. – Girdhar Joshi
- Fear banged at the door; Love answered,and discovered the disturbance had gone. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
- But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head. – Samuel Beckett
- If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak. – Sun Tzu
- People don’t think when they’re enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance. – Marty Rubin
- Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn’t hurt you don’t think about it. – Marty Rubin
- Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead. – G Campbell Morgan
- God may allow a disturbance, but we don’t have to be disturbed by it. – Dillon Burroughs
- All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. – John Steinbeck
- History is a symptom of our disease – Mao Zedong
- Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido. – Frank Tallis
- Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. – Christopher Dutton
- Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back. – Alain de Botton
- Your weight is merely a symptom of your diet and lifestyle. – Judy N Green
- When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom – Nina Leavins
- To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom. – Liezi
- Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Any kind of hatred towards the opposite sex is a symptom of an unhealthy relationship with God. – Nityananda Das
- 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