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Quotes About Sickness

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
~ Dr. Karl Menninger
There are some sick people in this world
~ Dr. Phil McGraw
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
~ Dutch proverb
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.
~ Sterling W Sill
One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.
~ Jewish Folk Saying
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
~ Joanne Greenberg
The sick are all so afraid of their own uncontrollable power! Somehow they cannot believe that they are only people, holding only a human-sized anger!
~ Joanne Greenberg
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
~ Joanne Greenberg
With pride your spirit is darkened For this you won't know the world at all. You say that this faith is a dream And mirage is this capital. You say that my country is sinful, Your country is godless, I scream. May the guilt still lie upon us -- We can correct and redeem. Around you are water and flowers Why seek a beggar and sinner, my dear? I know that you're sick very badly: You seek death and the end you fear.
~ Anna Akhmatova
With pride your spirit is darkened For this you won't know world at all. You say that this faith is a dream And mirage is this capital. You say that my country is sinful, Your country is godless, I scream. May the guilt still lie upon us -- We can correct and redeem. Around you are water and flowers Why seek a beggar and sinner, my dear? I know that you're sick very badly: You seek death and the end you fear.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Many artists find that a forced separation from their studio caused by events like sickness, vacation, or a move makes it hard to begin again.
~ Anna Held Audette
He saw the young man's face in the mirror up on the wall, he saw the thick wind-ruffled hair and the little scar on the cheekbone. The face moved in the mirror and when he looked round he could not see it anywhere in the room, and when he wanted to call out the sickness choked him, and now he tried to fight the icy sickness, but like whales the waves of it fell on him till he was pounded and drowned, and while he froze suffocating and could not move or breathe...
~ Anna Kavan
There is sickness here," Henry said. "The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear." The
~ Anne Bishop
Many kinds of prey had perfected the art of hiding sickness or injury to avoid being singled out when predators were hunting.
~ Anne Bishop
After some time I fell into a lingering sickness like a consumption, together with lameness, which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and do me good: and it was not altogether ineffectual.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Your separateness could kill you unless I take it from you as a sickness.
~ Anne Carson
vomiting baby fountains.
~ Anne Ursu
I'm going to throw up
~ Annie Barrows
Oh, say, how call ye this, To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kiss Betrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these: 'Tis but of all man's inward sicknesses The vilest, that he knoweth not of shame Nor pity! Yet I praise him that he came . . . To me it shall bring comfort, once to clear My heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear.
~ Euripides
Truth's words are simple to utter and justice needs no subtle explanations. Justice is self explanatory. Injustice, however, being a sickness, requires complicated medicines and it is this sort of thinking that I have constructed about my father's house (words by Polyneices).
~ Euripides
In that dark hour I was aghast to realise that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died. I suddenly knew I had no desire or tenderness or esteem. Nothing remained except the chill bonds of law and duty an custom.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before — and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald