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Quotes About Sickness

All I can look after is my own farm, serve those who seek when they are sick. I have children to look after so that they will not know what hunger is." -Istak
~ F. Sionil Jose
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
~ Flip Wilson
It is man's only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane. Jesus Christ said: "Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?" (Mat. 8:26) So we can see we
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every trick.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
God has prescribed the remedy for the spiritual sickness of the human race. The solution is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ . . .if we deliberately refuse it, we must suffer the horrible consequences.
~ Billy Graham
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?
~ Billy Graham
Because I'm sick. Because there was so much sickness. Because I say "fuck the sickness." Because no pain, no gain. Because spare the rod and spoil the child. Because you always hurt the one you love.
~ Bob Flanagan
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
~ Boris Pasternak
Maybe Jared was sick today. He lived, I knew thanks to Spoon, on the second floor of Barna House. I could go and see if he was there. The other option was to . . . to what? I could go find Ema at the deli, but then it might be harder to come back on campus without a lot of questions. Might
~ Harlan Coben
You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?
~ Harper Lee
I know what you mean, boy...You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?
~ Harper Lee
These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
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.
~ W. Daniel Hillis
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
~ John Masefield
I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.
~ Floor Jansen
My second freshman year of college, that's year two of seven, my father got very sick and though he was going to die. He gave me a Rolex, a bottom of the line one. I wore that watch everyday. He didn't die. On my 40th birthday, he gave me a very nice Rolex that belonged to him. That's the one thing we connect on: the watch.
~ Bert Kreischer
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
~ Vance Havner
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
~ Skeet Ulrich
It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.
~ Socrates
human realm, where you will experience the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!
~ Soleil Moon Frye
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
~ St. Augustine
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.
~ Henry David Thoreau