Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, 'I remember, I remember the house where I was born.' I don't even know what mine looked like!
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.