Sick World Quotes:

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Sick World, Hands, Afternoon, Good Afternoon, Sad World

In a sick world even the hale are sick.

- Olaf Stapledon

source: Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Sick World, Sick, World

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

source: "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Tired, Sick, Being Sick, Big Book, Just For Today

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Color, Circles, Tree, Indian, Tree Of Life

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

- Clive Stafford Smith

topic: Sick, World, Death Penalty, Sick World

The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

- Morihei Ueshiba

source: Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

topic: Art, Self, Medicine, Sick World

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

- Jean Toomer

topic: Art, Get Well, Sick, Sick World

Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Blessing, Light, Color, Indian, Native American Indian

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.12, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Love, Medicine, Sick, Sick World

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

- Bill Janklow

topic: Couple, Taken, Years, Arson, Sick World

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

- Tracy Kidder

topic: Book, Writing, Sick, Ordinary Person, Sick World

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Christmas, Heart, Thinking, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

- George Santayana

topic: War, Ambition, Buddhism, Furious, Anesthetics