Sickness quotes

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

#India #Sickness #Terrorism

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

#Self Esteem #Men #Sickness

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
-- Albert Low

#Unique #News #Sickness

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

#Normal #Opinion #Sickness

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
-- Alexander Pope

#Age #Sickness #States

The canter is a cure for every evil.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Horse #Evil #Sickness

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Sickness #Sensible

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
-- Cameron Dokey

#Faults #Kind #Sickness

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Poverty #Sickness #Melancholy

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
-- Charles Dickens

#Pride #Sickness #Breaking Down

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
-- Cornelia Funke

#Sometimes #Sickness #Cures

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

#Love Is #Kind #Sickness

Spread the sickness, infect the world.
-- David Draiman

#World #Sickness #Spread

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
-- David Levithan

#Sickness #Moments #Trade

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.
-- David Levithan

#Wake Up #Normal #Sickness

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
-- Edmond de Goncourt

#Health #Men #Sickness

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.
-- Edward Dahlberg

#Book #Writing #Sickness

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Soul #Sickness #Indifference

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
-- Eliza Bisbee Duffey

#Pregnancy #Insult #Sickness

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

#Giving #Sickness #Poor

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .
-- Eric Hoffer

#Writing #Ideas #Sickness

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
-- Frank McCourt

#Dad #Son #Sickness

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Real #Gentleman #Sickness

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.
-- Helene Cixous

#Sick #Sickness #Worst

When in sickness, look to the spine first.
-- Hippocrates

#Looks #Firsts #Sickness

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
-- Indro Montanelli

#Sickness #Democratic

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
-- J. C. Ryle

#Sickness #Good Things

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

#Health #Healthy #Sickness

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

#School #Long #Sickness

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
-- Jean Baptiste Massillon

#Death #Steps #Sickness

All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
-- Jennifer Rardin

#Fear #Sickness #Newspapers

You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.
-- Jessie Pavelka

#World #Sickness #Cures

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
-- Joanne Greenberg

#Flower #Creative #Sickness

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.
-- John R. Rice

#War #Sickness #Crime

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Done #Sickness

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well
-- Lauren Oliver

#Believe #Sickness #Dangerous

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
-- Linus Pauling

#Disease #Wellness #Sickness

Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency
-- Linus Pauling

#Disease #Sickness #Minerals

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

#Ideas #Sickness #Ill

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

#Trust #Sickness #Contagion

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Soul #Sickness

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
-- Martha Ostenso

#Shapes #Sickness #Illness

She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and the best you could do was to cover it up, and sometimes it would just come boiling out anyway. Then you had to point at it and condemn it, even though you knew you had it too.
-- Mary Gaitskill

#Sometimes #Sickness

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.
-- Myrtle Fillmore

#Children #Sickness #Child Of God

Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Gold #Inheritance #Sickness

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all...
-- Nelson Mandela

#Done #Poverty #Sickness

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

#Gone #Sickness

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.
-- Oliver Sacks

#Firsts #Patient #Sickness

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
-- Osamu Dazai

#Addiction #Spirit #Sickness

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
-- Osamu Tezuka

#Ignorance #Sickness #Thrive

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.
-- Paul Bowles

#Men #Hegemony #Sickness

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
-- Paul Tournier

#May #Medical #Sickness

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
-- Petr Skrabanek

#Political #Sickness #Symptoms

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
-- Petrarch

#Vices #Sickness #Virtue

I have this mental sickness called creativity
-- Philippe Starck

#Creativity #Sickness

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
-- Phyllis Bottome

#Laughter #Sickness

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
-- Plato

#Ignorance #Soul #Sickness

civilization is a transient sickness.
-- Robinson Jeffers

#Civilization #Sickness #Illness

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
-- Samuel Daniel

#Love Is #Woe #Sickness

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.
-- Sarah Waters

#Feelings #Skins #Sickness

I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
-- Shane Koyczan

#Motivation #Inspiration #Sickness

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.
-- Stephen Fry

#Laughter #Thinking #Sickness

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.
-- Sylvia Plath

#World #Sickness #Victim

You can't have healing without sickness.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Healing #Sickness

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
-- Teresa of Avila

#Love #Prayer #Sickness

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
-- Theodor Adorno

#Sibling #Sickness #Reason

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
-- Thomas Bernhard

#Study #Sickness #Poetic

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
-- Thomas Fuller

#Health #Sickness

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.
-- Tim Daly

#Medicine #Sickness #Wells

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

#Men #Sickness #Humans

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt

#Time #Body #Sickness

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

#Childhood #Disease #Sickness

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
-- C. J. Anderson

#Sickness #Sin #Delusional

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.'
-- Ervin Seale

#Errors #Listening #Sickness

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.
-- Flannery O'Connor

#Sickness #Company

The same drugs are way cheaper in Germany than in America because, obviously, if all sickness funds negotiate with the drug companies for a single price, then the market power of the sickness funds is fully used. So therefore you would expect the prices to be lower for the drugs in Germany, and this is exactly what you see, at least for non-generic drugs.
-- Karl Lauterbach

#Drug #Sickness #Fund

I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness funds there are, the less bureaucracy and the easier the system is to operate. But it is important that the best sickness funds survive.
-- Karl Lauterbach

#Thinking #Important #Sickness

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

#Suffering #Sickness #Traveller

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.
-- Stephen Starr

#Interviews #Sickness #Employee

I attempt from love's sickness to fly.
-- Henry Purcell

#Sickness