Quotes About Sickness

Can go downstairs right now and let my mom know how I'm feeling—if she's even home—but she'll tell me to help myself to the Advil in her purse and that I need to relax and stop getting myself worked up, because in this house there's no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer under the tongue. Things fall into categories of black and white—bad mood, bad temper, loses control, feels sad, feels blue.

looked up and found the Great Bear. I told her, In Italy, they used to blame the influence of the constellations for making them sick—that's where influenza comes from.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

You look awfully pale.

not feel very well.

Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind — unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

Sickness made itself at home in their close, dark rooms, disease thriving in the absence of windows and hope.

Endings in real life come about with every question answered. People change, people leave, people get sick.

Doubt was probably a sickness he was born with, and fighting against it was his lot in life...

I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.

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

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.

Kids get sick in preschool. A lot. Make sure that your kids are getting all the immune boosting they can to fight the germs!

When sick, the ability to afford a prescription - or whether your plan offers the coverage you need - should be the last thing on your mind.

When I was a little girl, whenever I would get sick, my mom would go and get stacks and stacks of VHS tapes from Blockbuster.

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

He is just something that happened to us, in a time of loss and sadness and sickness and uncertainty, when, as the boy Little Arliss said in Old Yeller, we needed us a dog.

What happens when the Church ceases to stand for truth or to live holy lives separate from the world? When that type of wrong doctrine gains ascendancy, it produces a weak Church so contaminated with spiritual sickness that very little power remains in it.

Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair.

I was pretty sick for a couple of weeks--too sick for the Mrs. to give me the news. And it's a wonder I didn't

World I have loved and loving hated, is it your sickness luxuriating in my body's world?

Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting—there's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.