Sickness Quotes

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

Altitude sickness is gonna put the screws on you.

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.

You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.