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Quotes About Sickness

Fear is man's greatest enemy. It is behind failure, sickness, and bad human relations. Love casts out fear. Love is an emotional attachment to the good things of life. Fall in love with honesty, integrity, justice, good will, and success. Live in the joyous expectancy of the best, and invariably the best will come to you.
~ Joseph Murphy
Sick?--What's sick? Who is 'well'? Do you imagine, if you or I were minutely examined, we would be one hundred percent 'well'?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Being lonely was a female sickness for which the cure was the tattoo freak & the tattoo freak was also the sickness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There will always be the lucky well and the unlucky sick, but the division should never be determined by privilege—intellectual or otherwise. Among
~ Wayne Biddle
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.
~ Wess Stafford
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
~ Danish Proverb
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
~ Danny Hillis
Before the earthquake, medicine was hard to find. When you went to the hospital, you had to bring your own. In this country, you don't go there until the pain becomes unbearable. Otherwise, you don't consider yourself sick. It's better not to be sick if you can't pay for the medicine. That way, you go from bring in good health to being dead. Illness is a luxury you can't afford if you don't have the means. So you die without ever having been sick.
~ Dany Laferrière
Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.
~ Dashiell Hammett
My soul fills quietly with the yellow gas of joy. I am to see Alice. I feel light returning, a sudden surge like a goal in extra-time; hope spreads in my heart like fridgeless Clover on white white bread. Even my cold toes become warm. Then I realise that Jezebel has been sick on my feet.
~ David Baddiel
Web" She nods again. "And how does that make you feel?" -How does that make me feel? Like I was living in the middle of Fourth of July fireworks. Like I was exploding with so much joy there would have never been a Vietnam War because my joy would have caused world peace.- "It's wrong, and I'm sick." That's what I say. Because anything else and I'll be carted off right here, right now.
~ James Brandon
And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for "weak, sick people" because he was frightened by any suggestion he could ever become that.
~ James C. Coyne
What kind of world has this become?" "A really sick one
~ James Dashner
sick, Mark. I'm really, really sick. I need to die. I need to die and I don't wanna die for nothing.
~ James Dashner
Mark shook Trina awake and scrambled to his feet, pulling her up with him. The Toad was definitely sick, and he was standing just a few feet from their camp. They didn't know anything about this sickness, but that only made it scarier. Trina seemed disoriented, but Mark didn't relent, half dragging her to the other side of the dead coals of their fire from earlier that night. "Alec!" he shouted. "Lana! Wake up!" As if the two were still soldiers,
~ James Dashner
will you stay here? No. Will you go back? You can't. We must, therefore, go on. That's is our only hope. Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Poverty, sicknes, and death are evils; but the worst of all evils is unrequited love.
~ James De Mille
God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.
~ James MacDonald
My love was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness.
~ Donna Tartt
idea that government should be used to help those who needed help—the poor, the undereducated, the ill-housed, the elderly, the sick.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I have only to dismount, and be sick, and then I am, as ever, your man.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.
~ Douglas Adams
What is it the Arab sages call death?" Pendergast went on. "The destroyer of all earthly pleasures. And how true it is: old age, sickness, and at last death comes to us all. Some console themselves with religion, others through denial, others through philosophy or mere stoicism.
~ Douglas Preston
Many of the Spanish by this time had fallen sick, and quite a few had died, due to the unsanitary conditions on board ship and the impossibility of escaping contagion. In a few years, fully half of Columbus's fifteen hundred soldiers would be dead of disease.
~ Douglas Preston
Evolution extracts a price. What is the price? Sickness, old age, and death; tragedy, hunger, sorrow, pain, and suffering—all these must exist in order for evolution to operate. Without death there can be no evolution.
~ Douglas Preston