#communicable

Misery is a communicable disease. ↗

— Martha Graham

#disease #misery

And although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read about or listen to or look at what is highest and the most beautiful in life, but are, if you please, to live it. Therefore, when I readily admit that romantic love lends itself much better to artistic portrayal than marital love, this does not at all mean that it is less esthetic than the other - on the contrary, it is more esthetic. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#love #marriage #the-incommunicable #the-unrepresentable #art

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#fifty #incommunicable #know #knows #man

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#capturing #experience #incommunicable #individual #man

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#age #child #communicable #diseases #mother