Pathology Quotes

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.