Syndrome/history

Famous quotes containing the words syndrome and/or history:

    “[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech’s daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “There is no history of how bad became better.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)