Quotes About Sickness

Try and hang on," said Dad. "Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—" Bertie was sick.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

No one wants everyone to know how sick they are and everyone to see how much they are struggling. And when that seems to be the focus, of making sure everyone sees how sick you are, that's just confusing to someone that is trying to be supportive.

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

Birtherism surely increased Americans' distrust of politics, though in ways that are hard to pin down. By contrast, when anti-vaxxers persuade parents not to vaccinate children, the result can be sickness and even death.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.

She feels sick. She hates this world.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments.

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.