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Quotes About Sickness

The reason people become sick is the same reason that they become sinful. They surrender to the suggestion of the thing that is evil, and it takes possession of the heart.
~ John G. Lake
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
~ Eliza Bisbee Duffey
I was asking a sick plant for emotional labor so I could find the courage to ask them things I knew would hurt them greatly. But I was a sick mammal, so I suppose it evened out.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
All kinds of things can affect your baby's sleep: teething, sickness, vacations, visitors, vaccinations, or simply disruptions to your daily routine.
~ Elizabeth Pantley
There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
When she was small and at home on a rare sick day, she'd never quite trusted that her classroom would be there, with the day and its lessons going on, if she wasn't. "Solipsism": nine letters. Of course Ben had known the word.....It was how the rest of the world felt sometimes now that she was someone's mum. As if almost everywhere and everything else had disappeared. Sometimes, that wasn't so bad.
~ Ashley Hay
When the judge learned i was sick and unable to come to kourt, he had a fit. He acted like i had gotten sick just to delay the trial.
~ Assata Shakur
Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?
~ Atul Gawande
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
~ Avicenna
le malade au petit papier, as Charcot used to say.
~ Axel Munthe
Not unseated, Not even touched By the shocks of sickness, Gods stand worlds from men.
~ Bacchylides
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
I'm a Bipolar 1, Rapid Cycler. So really easily, if I'm around people that are sick and are not medicated, and there's a lot of people going to AA that should be medicated that are really, truly mentally ill, then I end up being triggered.
~ Beth Hart
Cancer makes you realise that you will be dead one day. It's so common seeing people dying and falling sick, but we aren't really ever able to comprehend it ourselves. The realisation that I am here for a certain period of time and will be gone after that made me value my time and life.
~ Manisha Koirala
TIMATOV," which I've learned means Think I'm About to Openly Vomit
~ Gary Shteyngart
He knew that he had been born in a sick country, a country now intent on spreading its disease to others through the social media channels and under the cover of night--its true gift of the moment.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I had turned my mind from my survival just as a man suffering from a deadly sickness manages by a thousand tricks never to look at death squarely; or rather, as a woman alone in a large house refrains from looking into mirrors, and instead busies herself with trivial errands, so that she may catch no glimpse of the thing whose feet she hears at times on the stairs.
~ Gene Wolfe
I, however, never suffered more than a sore throat and a running nose, forms of sickness that serve only to deceive healthy people into the belief that they know in what disease consists. Master Malrubius suffered real illness, which is to see death in shadows.
~ Gene Wolfe
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
~ George Eliot
I loved my second trimester! I didn't feel sick anymore and had more energy. My bloated belly turned into a baby bump, and I definitely looked pregnant. That was a relief because when I was around 4.5 months, you could see people having this inner monologue with themselves, wondering if I ate too much pizza or if I was pregnant.
~ Marisa Miller
I've got a phobia about throwing up.
~ Charlie Brooker
Lee was my father's lawyer, a mensch. But he's been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic." "That's one of the worst. A killer." "Yes, the ones that kill you are definitely the worst. [...]
~ Sam Lipsyte
You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.
~ Sam Shepard