#prolong

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#combinations #contribute #distress #frequently #poor

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. ↗

— William J. Mayo

#disease #eliminate #ideal #life #long life

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups. ↗

— George Michael

#aimed #bill #democratic #especially #every

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #evils #man #prolongs #reality

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#how #prolong #question #to be or not to be

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock. ↗

— Allen Klein

#consequences #country #enormous #global #horrendous

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#even #feels #heavier #heavy #hundred

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#chance #dies #every #existing #itself

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe