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Quotes About Sickness

I called my pilot 2 weeks before I flew and asked him, "I don't want to get sick, what should I eat?" He said, "Peanut Butter." I said, "If I eat peanut butter then I won't get sick?" He said," no, but it tastes the same comin' up as it does goin' down.
~ Bill Engvall
I soon find out this Grosswalk has been feeding her a line, telling her that his wife is an incurable invalid not long for this world
~ Bill Pronzini
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
~ Meryl Streep
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
~ Gregory Maguire
Estomac. Toutes les maladies viennent de l'estomac6
~ Gustave Flaubert
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
~ Grimes
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
My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
~ Ted Cruz
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
~ George Crabbe
Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.
~ John of Kronstadt
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.
~ Aeschylus
swollen bowels burst and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of bystanders
~ Simon Jenkins
And I'm never, never sick at sea!What, never?No, never!What, never?Hardly ever!He's hardly ever sick at sea!Then give three cheers, and one cheer moreFor the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
~ Siri Hustvedt
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
~ Anais Nin
I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.
~ Colin Firth
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
~ Wang Wei
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
~ Bill Vaughan
You and I can learn the same. Christ-based contentment turns us into strong people. Since no one can take our Christ, no one can take our joy. Can death take our joy? No, Jesus is greater than death. Can failure take our joy? No, Jesus is greater than our sin. Can betrayal take our joy? No, Jesus will never leave us. Can sickness take our joy? No, God has promised, whether on this side of the grave or the other, to heal us.
~ Max Lucado
We long for the call to come home. But until He calls, we wait.... And how do we wait? With patient eagerness. (See rom. 8:25,23) Patient eagerness. Not so eager as to lose our patience, and not so patient as to lose our eagerness. ...we grow so patient we sleep!... ... Or we are so eager we demand. We demand in this world what only the next world can give. No sickness. No suffering. No struggle.
~ Max Lucado
He, at this very moment, issues invitations by the millions. He whispers through the kindness of a grandparent, shouts through the tempest of a tsunami. Through the funeral he cautions, "Life is fragile." Through a sickness he reminds, "Days are numbered." God may speak through nature or nurture, majesty or mishap. But through all and to all he invites: "Come, enjoy me forever.
~ Max Lucado
Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.
~ Meg Cabot
This seems like one of the hardest things about being sick in the way you're sick: being sick makes you stressed. But being stressed makes you sicker.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
In a sick country every step to health is an insult to those who live on its sickness.
~ Bernard Malamud