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Quotes About Sickness

While the sick man has life, there is hope.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.
~ Liz Murray
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I run water over a hand towel and I wet my face with it. My mom used to do this for me when I was sick. She'd put an ice-cold washcloth over my forehead and she'd switch it out with a fresh one when it wasn't cold anymore. I wish my mom was here.
~ Jenny Han
Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to grow old. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape old age. Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to get sick. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape sickness. Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to die. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape dying. Breathing in, I know that one day I will have to let go of everything and everyone I love. Breathing out, I know there is no way to bring them along.
~ Jenny Offill
Every Christian should say: 'Have I wealth now? I should prepare for poverty. Have I health now? I should prepare for sickness.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.
~ Jerry Coleman
As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!
~ Jessica Alba
My emotional range is limited. I can't do grief, but rage is my friend. For instance, I hate death by sickness. It is nothing like Homer, the Old Testament, and Tolkien led me to expect. It is not noble and awe-inspiring. No one delivers a final soliloquy. It is as abrupt and banal as the flicking of a switch.
~ Jessica Zafra
My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick.
~ Ernest Hemingway
by the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick.
~ Eudora Welty
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.
~ Andrew Weil
now be quiet, I'm going to be sick.
~ Angie Sage
You are not to go out until something has been done about this Sickenesse.
~ Angie Sage
I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.
~ Ira Hayes
Usually, when people are sick, you go and help them, but Covid is such that you cannot be around them, but help from a distance. I think that hit me. Some people have nobody to go out and buy things for them, nobody to make any food.
~ Nidhhi Agerwal
I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.
~ Kerris Dorsey
A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.
~ Robert Cormier
We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
He blew his nose resoundingly. B natural, said he, my cold drops more than a full tone every hour. Obviously I am dying.
~ Robertson Davies
He almost dreaded to find out what was going on in the hospital. It was like a sickness in his own family. Medicine had been his life.
~ Robin Cook
Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.
~ Robin McKinley