Sickness Quotes
Sad Quotes about Sickness

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people
come from their intelligence.
They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
- Marcel Proust

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
- Rodney Dangerfield

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems
to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does
not penetrate to the bones,
that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
- Saint Ignatius

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
- Lionel Trilling

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
- Joseph Stalin

Exuberant health is always, as such,
sickness also.
- Theodor Adorno

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue,
constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people,
for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.
- Robert Grosseteste

Philosophy is properly home-sickness;
the wish to be everywhere at home.
- Novalis

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
- William Golding

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
- Hernando Cortez

In India we only read about death, sickness,
terrorism, crime.
- Abdul Kalam

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness.
I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
- Pamela Anderson

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness.
I cried when it was time to go back to school long
after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
- Jacques Derrida

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part,
the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear,
Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
- Edmund Waller

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to
do my sickness in private.
- Mick Mars

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
- Avicenna

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or
woman because it's conditional.
- Albert Ellis

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
- Aeschylus

It's no longer a question of staying healthy.
It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
- Jackie Mason

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded
my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
- Edvard Munch

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age,
some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
- John Donne

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease.
It is the only disease I know of that we're spending
hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
- Vance Havner

Hollywood...
a city I was to come back to time and again,
in sickness and in health, in success and in failure,
with anticipation and with dread.
- Dirk Benedict

For man also, in health and sickness,
is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
- Walter Rudolf Hess

Hope is necessary in every condition.
The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would,
without this comfort, be insupportable.
- William Samuel Johnson

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
- Thomas Fuller

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
- Felix Frankfurter

A few regular troops from old France,
weakened by hunger and sickness, who,
when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers,
are their general's chief dependence.
- James Wolfe

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing;
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
- Samuel Daniel

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures,
have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of
death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
- Georges Rouault

When you run an entrepreneurial business,
you have hurry sickness - you don't look back,
you advance and consolidate.
But it is such fun.
- Anita Roddick

As contagion of sickness makes sickness,
contagion of trust can make trust.
- Marianne Moore

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours.
It's a palliative.
The remedy is death.
- Nicolas de Chamfort

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.
- Lawrence Durrell

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.
- Max Muller

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich
families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands.
So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day ,
sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
- Evita Peron

The mother's battle for her child with sickness,
with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation
and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle,
waged in love and in the passion for survival.
- Adrienne Rich

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which
in my opinion was normal.
However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft
were telling the workers to feign illness,
and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
- Albert Speer

People think celebrities don't have to worry about
human things like sickness and death and rent.
It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity,
this other country.
They want you to tell about what you saw.
- David Duchovny

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death.
These are part of scenery, not the seer,
who is immune to any form of change.
This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
- Deepak Chopra

The first stage had been all over before the doctors
even knew they were dealing with a new sickness;
it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body,
at the moment when the bomb went off,
by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
- John Hersey

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea.
I was immediately affected with sea-sickness,
which, however, lasted but a short time.
I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
- John James Audubon

From the very commencement the student should set out
to witness the progress and effects of sickness and
ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease
during the whole period of his studies.
- Robert James Graves

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me.
My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior,
by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
- Johnny Depp

Spiritually good people, pure in heart,
who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time,
can receive spiritually...
even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health,
with immeasurable grace and profit.
- Johannes Tauler

Save for minor ailments and accident,
my battalion is practically immune from sickness;
colds come and go as a matter of course,
sprains and cuts claim momentary attention,
but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
- Patrick MacGill

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
- George Burns

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

I will not eat oysters.
I want my food dead.
Not sick.
Not wounded.
Dead.
- Woody Allen

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
- Kin Hubbard

Love is staying up all night with a sick child -
or a healthy adult.
- David Frost

Modern medicine is a negation of health.
It isn't organized to serve human health,
but only itself, as an institution.
It makes more people sick than it heals.
- Ivan Illich

Film lovers are sick people.
- Francois Truffaut

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding
equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
- Martin H. Fischer

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take
the first pill that comes along.
- Joyce Brothers

Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin Trillin

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you
don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
- Flip Wilson

The physician's highest calling, his only calling,
is to make sick people healthy - to heal,
as it is termed.
- Samuel Hahnemann

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
- Tony Scott

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to
music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices.
I had to go out to be sick.
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy,
I hate God.
- Ernestine L. Rose

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler
and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so
mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
- Margaret Walker

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation
and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick...
and it's profitable.
- Heather Donahue