Quotes About Sickness

What was the promise with the head sick?

Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is active, it overrides 'the next thing.' Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he's done. He's a bar on which a thousand things have been hung — glittering things sometimes, as ours are; but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them.

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.

But thank God there's imperfection in the World, Since imperfection is a thing, And the existence of mistaken People is original, And the existence of sick People makes the world interesting. If there were no imperfection, there would be one less thing, And there should be many Things, So that we will have a lot to see and hear For as long as Our eys and ears remain open...

Tenho a náusea física da humanidade vulgar, que é, aliás, a única que há. E capricho, ás vezes, em aprofundar essa náusea, como se pode provocar um vomito para aliviar a vontade de vomitar.

Tedium is not a sickness brought on by the boredom of having nothing to do but the worse sickness of feeling that nothing is worth doing. And thus, the more one has to do the worse the tedium

and everything is an incurable sickness. The indolence of feeling, the frustration of never knowing how to do anything, the inability to take action...

No," he said. Then he drew breath and said, "You got a nice place here. It's a nice part of the country. I'm sorry if I've give you a lot of trouble getting sick. It was my fault trying to be friendly with that nigger." And I'm a damned liar besides, he said to himself to kill the outrageous taste such a statement made in his mouth.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

You never know who is walking around with a fever who took some Tylenol to make themselves feel better.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

There is a smell that lung sickness gives people. It's the smell of blood and congestion and fever. It's the smell of blood mixed with air that hangs over a bed and fills a sickroom. It's the smell of old blood, and blood that is fresh and already old. It's the smell of a festering wound.

Había enflaquecido extraordinariamente en pocos días. La piel amarilla, pegada a los huesos planos del rostro, le daba la apariencia de un tísico. Más tarde la autopsia reveló que estaba ya avanzada la enfermedad en él.

enferma, y entonces, asqueado de sí mismo, saltaba del lecho, le entregaba el dinero a la prostituta, y sin haberla usado, huía hacia otro infierno a gastar el dinero que no le pertenecía, a hundirse más en su locura que aullaba a todas horas.

There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.

In other words: Allende's work is bad, but it's alive; it's anaemic, like a lot of Latin Americans, but it's alive. It won't live long, like many sick people, but for now it's alive. And there's always the possibility of a miracle.

Erinnerungen, die leuchten wie ein Betrunkener oder Kranker im Regen.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.