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Quotes About Sickness

Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Maybe God has a bigger plan for me that i had for myself, likes,this journey never ends, likes,you were sent to me because I'm sick,to help me through all this, you're my angel!
~ Nicholas Sparks
Standing in the mouth of the tube, he needed a few seconds for his body to feel as if it had come back together. There was always the sick feeling that came with fast travel, with being pulled apart and put back together.
~ Christine Feehan
I think that the rich can always call themselves democratic, but the sick people are not among the rich." I thought he was done, but he was only pausing for the interpreter to catch up. "Look, I'm very proud to be an American. I have many opportunities because I'm American. I can travel freely throughout the world, I can start projects, but that's called privilege, not democracy.
~ Tracy Kidder
He spoke about Africa in an unusual way. He spoke of Africa as though Africa was a sick child and he was the parent.
~ V.S. Naipaul
smell of vomit and mold and decay. His lungs and nostrils ache. He can't breathe without gasping.
~ Kristin Hannah
Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?" "Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.
~ Cassandra Clare
down. She felt weak and slightly sick. But there wasn't a stick of furniture of any kind in the place. Hastily
~ Catherine Cookson
Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,
~ Catherynne M. Valente
He was the one who'd come back to life not fifteen minutes ago. Whenever he got sick at home, Aunt Elizabeth and Tabitha made a tremendous fuss with hot water bottles and tinctures and sweets and kisses. It only stood to reason that they should all make an extra-tremendous fuss now. After all, when you rose from the grave in England, people tended to make whole religions out of you.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
No, answered Mo. Maybe we're getting sick. Grumpo had that cold, remember? He told us to snuggle up close so we would get it, too.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There are many different types of illness and people get sick for different reasons. Sometimes it's easy to see what is wrong with the person; they may have a rash or a bad cough. But other times it's because of how they feel inside and the things they say and do, or can't do.
~ Cathy Glass
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
~ Ben Hecht
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
~ English proverb
An ill man is worst when he appeareth good.
~ Proverb
I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care for nothing. If you had been this way a few months ago, it would have been different. It is too late, now.
~ Jack London
At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time and the inclination to communicate with the stars and the trees and the waves drifting ashore, one lives more intensely.
~ James A. Michener
I've come to see institutional decline like a staged disease: harder to detect but easier to cure in the early stages, easier to detect but harder to cure in the later stages. An institution can look strong on the outside but already be sick on the inside
~ James C. Collins
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.
~ James Frey
People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.
~ Stuart Scott
You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
~ Abraham Maslow
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
~ Florence Nightingale